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

[Xavier Ceccaldi <ceccaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fully aware of his genius, Leonardo's father sent him and his drawings to
his friend, the sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio, who invited him in his
workshop, in Florence. Leonardo begun his apprenticeship in 1464 or 1469: he
was 12 to 17 years old.





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


> 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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