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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Telescope History</title>
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		<title>Astrolabes, nocturnals and Voynich Manuscript page f57v&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/01/astrolabes-nocturnals-and-voynich-manuscript-page-f57v</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrolabes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Kieckhefer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a decade, I&#8217;ve wondered whether any of the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s circular drawings depict astronomical instruments &#8211; for before satnav there was celnav (&#8220;celestial navigation&#8221;). Here&#8217;s a brief guide to three key instrument types from the VMs&#8217; timeframe, and my current thoughts on the enigmatic circular diagram on f57v&#8230; * * * * * * * [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For a decade, I&#8217;ve wondered whether any of the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s circular drawings depict astronomical instruments &#8211; for before satnav there was celnav (&#8220;celestial navigation&#8221;). Here&#8217;s a brief guide to three key instrument types from the VMs&#8217; timeframe, and my current thoughts on the enigmatic circular diagram on f57v&#8230;
* * * * * * *
A key navigational [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo&#8217;s telescope&#8230;??!?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/13/leonardos-telescope</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/13/leonardos-telescope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Giancarlo Truffa recently posted a link to the HASTRO-L mailing list that contains a mention of a surprising claim that Leonardo da Vinci apparently designed a telescope:- On page 59(b) of Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus appears this drawing. Bülent Atalay proposed in 2005 that it is Leonardo’s “telescope”. The page also contains a “study of light reflection [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Giancarlo Truffa recently posted a link to the HASTRO-L mailing list that contains a mention of a surprising claim that Leonardo da Vinci apparently designed a telescope:-
On page 59(b) of Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus appears this drawing. Bülent Atalay proposed in 2005 that it is Leonardo’s “telescope”. The page also contains a “study of light reflection of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Mayor&#8217;s Thames Festival 2009&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/15/the-mayors-thames-festival-2009</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/15/the-mayors-thames-festival-2009#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Kepler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We just had a very enjoyable family day out strolling through the Mayor of London&#8217;s Thames Festival 2009: having started with some paella and a set from the remarkably good Petebox near the London Eye, we spent the whole afternoon mooching past countless stalls and live displays along the river towards Tower Bridge. So far, so not very Cipher Mysteries-esque: but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We just had a very enjoyable family day out strolling through the Mayor of London&#8217;s Thames Festival 2009: having started with some paella and a set from the remarkably good Petebox near the London Eye, we spent the whole afternoon mooching past countless stalls and live displays along the river towards Tower Bridge.
So far, so not very Cipher Mysteries-esque: but then [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Juan Roget telescope inventor theory, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/21/the-juan-roget-telescope-inventor-theory-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/21/the-juan-roget-telescope-inventor-theory-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In early 2008, I became interested in the mystery surrounding the first invention of the telescope. The year was the 400th anniversary of the first Dutch telescope patent application &#8211; yet the more accounts and explanations I read (even the very best ones, such as Albert van Helden&#8217;s exemplary &#8220;The Invention of the Telescope&#8221;), the less I believed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In early 2008, I became interested in the mystery surrounding the first invention of the telescope. The year was the 400th anniversary of the first Dutch telescope patent application &#8211; yet the more accounts and explanations I read (even the very best ones, such as Albert van Helden&#8217;s exemplary &#8220;The Invention of the Telescope&#8221;), the less I believed [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Calcagnini letters book at auction&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/08/calcagnini-letters-book-at-auction</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/08/calcagnini-letters-book-at-auction#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 07:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twice a year, the Leiden antiquarian bookseller Burgersdijk and Niermans hold a book auction &#8211; the one coming up shortly is on 19th-20th May 2009. Flicking idly through the listings, I noticed that going for (what seems to me a very reasonable) 300-ish euros is a 1608 printed edition of the 365 letters of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Twice a year, the Leiden antiquarian bookseller Burgersdijk and Niermans hold a book auction &#8211; the one coming up shortly is on 19th-20th May 2009.
Flicking idly through the listings, I noticed that going for (what seems to me a very reasonable) 300-ish euros is a 1608 printed edition of the 365 letters of the philosopher [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tycho Brahe&#8217;s handkerchief&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/23/tycho-brahes-handkerchief</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/23/tycho-brahes-handkerchief#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jan Hurych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tycho Brahe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following up the recent post here on Tycho Brahe&#8217;s moustache, Jan Hurych emails in to point out that a team of Czech researchers has also been forensically analyzing Brahe&#8217;s handkerchief. Disturbingly, their interim results indicate that he may have been addicted to Brasso. (OK, OK, so it&#8217;s a joke: but as it made me laugh, onto [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Following up the recent post here on Tycho Brahe&#8217;s moustache, Jan Hurych emails in to point out that a team of Czech researchers has also been forensically analyzing Brahe&#8217;s handkerchief. Disturbingly, their interim results indicate that he may have been addicted to Brasso.
(OK, OK, so it&#8217;s a joke: but as it made me laugh, onto the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Brahe&#8217;s moustache: murder, it wrote?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/21/brahes-moustache-murder-it-wrote</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/21/brahes-moustache-murder-it-wrote#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enrique Joven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tycho Brahe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enciphered diaries &#38; a murdered famous astronomer? No, it&#8217;s not Enrique Joven&#8217;s book out unexpectedly early, but this gem of a story from Der Spiegel: it describes how enciphered / encoded sections of the 400-year-old diary of Tycho&#8217;s distant cousin Erik Brahe seem to allude to Brahe&#8217;s murder. Brahe&#8217;s body is about to be exhumed to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Enciphered diaries &amp; a murdered famous astronomer? No, it&#8217;s not Enrique Joven&#8217;s book out unexpectedly early, but this gem of a story from Der Spiegel: it describes how enciphered / encoded sections of the 400-year-old diary of Tycho&#8217;s distant cousin Erik Brahe seem to allude to Brahe&#8217;s murder. Brahe&#8217;s body is about to be exhumed to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jan Brueghel the Elder&#8217;s telescopes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/27/jan-brueghel-the-elders-telescopes</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/27/jan-brueghel-the-elders-telescopes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enrique Joven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A short note just arrived from Enrique Joven, concerning a recent talk he attended at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by Dr. Paolo Molaro from the Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste: &#8220;On the invention of the telescope and the paintings of Jan Brueghel&#8221; Jan Brueghel depicted telescopes in four paintings spanning the period between 1609 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A short note just arrived from Enrique Joven, concerning a recent talk he attended at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by Dr. Paolo Molaro from the Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste: &#8220;On the invention of the telescope and the paintings of Jan Brueghel&#8221;
Jan Brueghel depicted telescopes in four paintings spanning the period between 1609 and [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Le Macchine Cifrate di Giovanni Fontana&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/12/06/review-of-le-macchine-cifrate-di-giovanni-fontana</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/12/06/review-of-le-macchine-cifrate-di-giovanni-fontana#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mary D'Imperio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even though people often assert (rather lazily) that the Voynich Manuscript is the only artefact &#8216;of its kind&#8217;, this is false, because there are plenty of similar documents. For the most part, the significant difference is merely one of scale, not of type &#8211; for example, the similar enciphered Quattrocento documents that do exist are neither [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Even though people often assert (rather lazily) that the Voynich Manuscript is the only artefact &#8216;of its kind&#8217;, this is false, because there are plenty of similar documents. For the most part, the significant difference is merely one of scale, not of type &#8211; for example, the similar enciphered Quattrocento documents that do exist are neither [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Invention of Cinemascope&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/30/the-invention-of-cinemascope</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/30/the-invention-of-cinemascope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The precise sequence of the invention of the telescope (and its early diffusion) remains cloudy: as an intellectual historian, the main issues revolve more around how the key ideas flowed &#8211; and, indeed, what ideas were even possible at different times. I also have a professional interest in lens technologies, and so was fascinated when I recently came [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The precise sequence of the invention of the telescope (and its early diffusion) remains cloudy: as an intellectual historian, the main issues revolve more around how the key ideas flowed &#8211; and, indeed, what ideas were even possible at different times.
I also have a professional interest in lens technologies, and so was fascinated when I recently came across [...]]]></content:encoded>
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