VMs: Re: Fabre D'Olivet, Czech merlons, Voynich by Leonardo? (link)

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Probably not 8. He would have been too young to have amassed such a large
and knowledgeable collection of information, even given his genius. 17
maybe, but I doubt 8.

Regards,
Dana Scott


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From: "Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: VMs: Fabre D'Olivet, Czech merlons, Voynich by Leonardo? (link)


> 1)
>
> > The Hebraic Tongue Restored by Fabre D'Olivet
>
> That's funny. Last week in Prague I bought a Czech translation of the
wonderful book by Umberto Eco
> "The creation of Europe, The search for the perfect language" (La ricerca
della lingua perfetta
> nella cultura europea, 1993). Every one of our players is mentioned in
this book: Lull, Kircher,
> Dee, Postel,  Agrippa, Paracelsus, etc. I learned a lot from it about the
context of the times.
> Everyone on this list should read it :-)
>
> On Fabre d'Olivet he says: "It is futile to follow Fabre's wild project :
his etymologies go the
> same way as those of Duiret, Guichard and Kircher and are even less
convincing."
>
> But the funniest citations in his book (I haven't finished it yet) is
about Kusánsý who in his "De
> pace fidei" (1453) proposed a eucumenical deal where the muslims and jews
would accept the truth of
> the Gospels, but all Christians would be circumcised :-)
>
> 2)
>
> I have independently verified that the (current version of the) Prague
castle has swallow-tail
> (Ghibbeline) merlons. I'll post the picture as soon as I can digitize the
video tape.
>
> 3)
>
> Do you know this link: http://www.edithsherwood.com/
>
> Most of the experts indicate that the manuscript dates to the second half
of the 15th century. I
> postulate that Leonardo da Vinci wrote the Voynich Manuscript circa 1460
when he was about 8 years
> old. If I am correct Yale University has a very valuable manuscript that
should be of great interest
> to Leonardo da Vinci scholars. (Edith Sherwood Ph. D.)
>
>
>
>
>
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