VMs: Cardan Grille

["David R. Jones" <drjones@xxxxxxx>]

This was recently posted to another group, and I thought it might be of 
interest here.  I know that Cardan and Dee were associates, though they 
had a falling out at one point.  My main point was if anyone had seen 
this in the context of the Voynich MS and if they found the arguments 
presented convincing.

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Hi

There is an article on the BBC from a few days ago, stating that a 
cryptographer has produced text similar to that found in the Voynich 
manuscript, using an Elizabethan cryptographic device known as a 
Cardan Grille.

Basically, the "Grille" is a piece of cardboard with holes in it in 
places of letters, which is moved over a grid of letters (enochian 
tables, anyone?), to make coded words. Further to this, I have no 
clue as to how the thing works.

Edward Kelley has been cited as the most likely creator of the
Voynich manuscript, so the question has to be: Can anyone find a 
Cardan Grille to decode the Enochian calls into the English 
translations given along with them?



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