Re: VMs: Newton code - answer

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Thanks, Jean-Yves!  For those who can't make out the
French, I will interpret some of it:

... Newton, obsessed by the idea that someone might be
able to appropriate one of his discoveries, ultimately
told Leibnitz only a few things.  One of Newton's last
messages to Leibnitz, by definition very enigmatic, was
the following:  

      6accdæ13eff7i3l9n4o4qrr4s8t12vx

It was a kind of impression of the following message:

data æquationae quotcunque fluentes quantitates
involvente, fluxiones invenire : et vice versa.

One can verify that this message does indeed contain
the character /a/ six times, the character /c/ two
time, etc. (/u/ and /v/ are mixed).  [But our better
crippies will undoubtedly have noted this!]

	I believe the Latin means, "Given equations involving
varying quantities, to invent fluxions, and vice
versa."  

	A Jean-Yves - je vous invite a mon site Voynich en
francais:

http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/francais/voynich/index.htm

Notez surtout "Sites".  

Dennis
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