VMs: Re: Barachias

[Dana Scott <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whew! Now it is perfectly clear to me. Thanks. {:-)

I wonder how far back La Sapienza keeps records of its alumni? Have
there been any attempts to determine if there is a record of alumni from
1605?

Regards,
Dana Scott


Rene Zandbergen wrote:

> Just to avoid confusion,
>
> I (at least) was joking :-)
>
> Sorry not to have made it more obvious,
>
> Rene
>
> --- Dana Scott <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Perhaps, but what precedence would there have been
> > for Kircher to do
> > this? What would the earth shaking motive have been?
> > For a man of
> > Kircher's stature and genius duping the hoi polloi
> > would have been less
> > rewarding it seems to me than inventing a 'perfect'
> > cipher, in which
> > case our quest is no less the worse for wear. I
> > think "the game is still
> > afoot". Kircher certainly was not in need of funds
> > nor more fame than he
> > had already acquired. His voluminous correspondence
> > does not appear to
> > hint at foul play nor do I expect that his intellect
> > exhibited
> > uncontrolled signs of grandeur even if he did have
> > an inflated ego, but
> > then again what do I know? Was he really that
> > interested in botany and
> > nymphs, baths, astrology, cosmology, the sun, the
> > moon, and the stars?
> > If indeed the VMS can be attributed to Kircher then
> > I would tend to side
> > with his having developed the manuscript as a
> > challenge to mankind to
> > decipher this exquisite enigma. So it may be a hoax
> > of a different sort
> > but from Kircher's camp I would still expect the VMS
> > to produce a
> > cornucopia of meaningful content.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dana Scott
> >
> > Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> >
> > > --- Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ohmy!
> > > >
> > > > Notice that the manuscript, Marci's "cover
> > letter",
> > > > and all the
> > > > original letters that mention Georg Baresch
> > and/or
> > > > the VMS were found
> > > > among Kircher's correspondence at PUG...
> > > >
> > > > ...so here is Voynich Theory 12,332-B: not only
> > the
> > > > VMS, but also all
> > > > those letters, were faked by Kircher himself!
> > And
> > > > Georg Baresch is no
> > > > more real than Rabbi Barachias!
> > >
> > > Yes! He had to insert these letters among the
> > other
> > > ones unobtrusively, so he just took out and
> > replaced
> > > most of the ones containing drawings and copies
> > > of sword inscriptions, etc. which explains why
> > they
> > > are all missing, and there's no gap in the page
> > > numbering.
> > >
> > > But was it Kircher, or an overly zealous Jesuit
> > after
> > > him?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Rene
> > >
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