Cryptography-Digest Digest #953, Volume #9 Fri, 30 Jul 99 00:13:04 EDT
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Re: The Alphabetic Labyrinth ... and Voynich ("Douglas A. Gwyn")
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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Alphabetic Labyrinth ... and Voynich
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 02:57:11 GMT
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> However, I noticed something else startling. She claims that
> Newbold's "decipherment" of the Voynich manuscript - as actually
> being written in extremely tiny letters that formed the symbols
> everyone else thought were its real letters - only was debunked
> when someone later found the real key to the Voynich manuscript.
> ...
> Is this just poor scolarship, or has the incredible happened,
> bringing an obscure solution to the Voynich manuscript to light?
It's inexcusably poor scholarship.
Jim Reeds has a Web page about the Voynich MS that has pointers
to reasonable information on its status:
http://www.research.att.com/~reeds/voynich.html
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