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The Voynich Manuscript

The Unsolved Riddle Of An Extraordinary Book Which Has Defied Interpretation For Centuries

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  • 294 páginas
  • 11 horas de lectura

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In 1912, Wilfrid Voynich, an antiquarian book dealer, stumbled upon a strange volume, its vellum pages covered in a beautiful but unrecognisable script accompanied by equally mystifying pictures. The codex has remained undeciphered from that day to this. Voynich believed the codex to be the work of medieval philosopher Roger Bacon, others that of the Elizabethan mathematician and occultist John Dee. Whoever created the book—which now resides at Yale University—it remains to this day a singular enigma which continues to defy the best efforts of linguists, cryptologists, and scholars. With the benefit of the authors' exhaustive research, readers can hazard their own guesses as to the meaning and provenance of this most beguiling of mysteries.

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The Voynich Manuscript, Rob Churchill, Gerry Kennedy

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Título
The Voynich Manuscript
Subtítulo
The Unsolved Riddle Of An Extraordinary Book Which Has Defied Interpretation For Centuries
Idioma
Inglés
Publicado en
2005
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
294
ISBN10
075286422X
ISBN13
9780752864228
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Descripción
In 1912, Wilfrid Voynich, an antiquarian book dealer, stumbled upon a strange volume, its vellum pages covered in a beautiful but unrecognisable script accompanied by equally mystifying pictures. The codex has remained undeciphered from that day to this. Voynich believed the codex to be the work of medieval philosopher Roger Bacon, others that of the Elizabethan mathematician and occultist John Dee. Whoever created the book—which now resides at Yale University—it remains to this day a singular enigma which continues to defy the best efforts of linguists, cryptologists, and scholars. With the benefit of the authors' exhaustive research, readers can hazard their own guesses as to the meaning and provenance of this most beguiling of mysteries.