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Re: Galileo's daughter
My mistake. That's a good one!
Dennis
Karl Kluge wrote:
>
> Dennis wrote:
>
> > Hmmm... I just read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". I've always thought we need
> > a good Knights Templar theory.
>
> For Pete's dake, Dennis, I've already proposed a perfectly good (and half
> serious) theory involving the Rosicrucians -- what more do you want? The
> Rosicrusian manifestos, with their references to the organization of the
> Ros. fraternity "first by four persons only, and by them was made
> the magical language and writing, with a large dictionary, which we yet
> daily use," the single concrete circumstantial detail of a Brother J.O.
> in England who had cured a young Earl of Norfolk of leprosy, and a date
> for the death of Christian Rosencrans of 1484 (consistent with the date
> of ~1470 that Panofsky would have assigned the Voynich if not for the
> supposedly post-Columbian plants), were an effort to flush out the
> authors of the Voynich.
>
> Karl