Re: VMs: Adreas Muller's hoax on Athanasius Kircher

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 10/01/03 22:49:15, "Robert Brantley"
> <robertbrantley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> >   "At one point, a rival named Andreas Muller
> concocted an unintelligible
> >   manuscript and sent it to Kircher with a note
> explaining that it had come
> >   from Egypt. He asked Kircher for a translation,
> and Kircher, reportedly,
> >   produced one at once."
> 
> Wonderful! But I doubt that Muller's hoax was the
> VMS: too long. A couple
> of pages would have been enough, and, Kircher would
> have not had the time
> of translating the VMS.

But there is still Mr. forgot-his-first-name
Fischer. He has already 'translated' both the
rongo-rongo and Linear-A corpora (Phaistos disk).
How's he doing with the VMs?

About the Mueller hoax, a nice twist to the story
is that he was a sinologist (expert or student
of Chinese). But no, it was not the VMs.

Once more, another nice book about Kircher is
'Il Mondo sotteraneo di Atanasio Kircher'
by Anton Haakman (appeared in Italian and Dutch
only), which also exposes Kircher's bluff. 
It's a novel based on the true story of a modern
hoax based on Kircher's letters. The names of
the culprits have been changed. This activity
may well have added to the protective attitude 
of the Gregorian University w.r.t. the
Kircher letters (in the past).

Cheers, Rene

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