Re: VMs: Newton code - answer

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Dennis, I appreciate.

 

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

 

Jean

Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> ver!
> sa."
>  
>
> 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
> ______________________________________________________________________
> To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
> unsubscribe vms-list

---

Yahoo! Mail : votre e-mail personnel et gratuit qui vous suit partout !
Créez votre Yahoo! Mail

Dialoguez en direct avec vos amis grâce à Yahoo! Messenger !