Re: VMs: Mad Kircher, was (lots)

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gabriel,

At 10:45 10/09/2003 +0100, Gabriel Landini wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:00, Nick Pelling wrote:
> > So, Kircher was already studying hieroglyphics *before 1628*, and Marci
> > might well have been someone else's cat's-paw - so the
> > VMs-as-17th-Century-hoax hypothesis is still breathing. :-)
>
> Marci got he ms. from Baresch, and both respected K.
> This also assumes that Raphael would have deliberatively told lies to 
> Marci or
> Baresch. Why?
>
> It may be a hoax, but a hoax to fool Kircher sounds extremely convoluted.
> Kircher receiving the ms is almost a strike of luck.

I didn't say I believed it, just that it was (like the Chinese Theory) hard 
to disprove. :-)

At least we can disprove the WMV-as-faker hypothesis now - perhaps that's 
the first domino of many... :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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