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Re: Clues from Chelseas Post...

Posted By: Bloodrain <bloodrain@clanplaid.net>
Date: 12 June 2001, 15:01

In Response To: Re: Clues from Chelseas Post... (NetBoy)

I believe Chelsea's response, as with the others, merely confirms that Luigi was correct. Marci was a student of Athanasius Kircher, and both were involved in the investigation of the Voynich cipher, a copy of which is in the Beinecke Library. Here's a paragraph from a page about Kircher that links Marci, Athanasius, Beinecke and Voynich:

One such curiosity is occasionally on display at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library. It is the Voynich "cipher" manuscript, probably about five hundred years old, a scientific text in an unidentified language called "the most mysterious manuscript in the world." Written by hand in an unknown alphabet on vellum it has 102 leaves including 8 folding leaves with about 400 botanical and 33 astrological subjects in five colors. Some of the plants have been identified as peculiar to America, so the earliest date would be the time of Columbus. To this day no one has been able to decipher it. One of Kircher's former students, John Marcus Marci, found it and brought it to Kircher because of his work on universal languages saying, ". . . for such Sphinxes as these obey no one but their master, Kircher." The present name of the manuscript " Voynich" is the name of the donor who was willing to pay $160,000 "for a book no one could read." It once belonged to Athanasius Kircher and had been on display in his museum.

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