RE: VMs: Mad Kircher, was (lots)

["Don Latham" <djl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Certainly not designed to tickle Kircher, I agree.
Don

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Subject: Re: VMs: Mad Kircher, was (lots)


Don Latham wrote:

>I agree with Rene. If it was a hoax, where's the historical horselaugh?  If
>a copy for profit, where's the profit and the original(s)? Too organized
for
>psychotic glossolalia, so an organized, encoded/encrypted belief system.
>Don Latham
>
>

Do you mean specifically a hoax perpetrated against Kircher, or a hoax
*in general*?  For the general case, the evidence from the Kircher
letter itself points to a 600 ducat profit to whomever sold it to Rudolf
II.  That certainly seems like a healthy dose of evidence, and reason
enough not to be very public about its creation.

But I agree that there doesn't seem to be much supporting evidence that
the manuscript was meant to hoax Kircher himself.

-Seth

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