Website review: Voynich Manuscript
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•6 reviews since Oct 9, 2003
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erithbabalon rated 9 months ago- When, in 1639, the Prague citizen Georg Baresch wrote to the famous Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher that he owned a mysterious book which was written in an unknown script and profusely illustrated with pictures of plants, stars and alchemical secrets, he thought that Kircher would be able to decipher this book for him. He could not have guessed that not only was Kircher unable to do this, but that a long row of vastly more expert codebreakers were equally going to fail. The book has come down to us and even now, more than 360 years later, not a single word from its 234 pages can be understood. Nor was Baresch the first to attempt in vain to read the MS. Before him, various scientists which the Holy Roman emperor Rudolf II collected at his court may well have tried their hand. The book is now known as the Voynich manuscript (MS), after its (re)discovery in 1912 by Wilfrid Voynich.
- cindra24 rated 13 months ago
- A linguistic puzzle centuries old. Intriguing. What ever the language, it's beautiful looking.
- fooziex rated 14 months ago
- What a mystery.
- madman0004 rated 32 months ago
- A 360 year old puzzle that remains unsolved to this day. Check out each of the individual pages of the manuscript...this stuff is breathtaking.
- Zael rated 37 months ago
- From the page: "Now, almost 100 years later, the Voynich manuscript still stands as probably the most elusive puzzle in the world of cryptography. Not a single word of this 'Most Mysterious Manuscript', written probably in the second half of the 15th Century, can be understood."
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