Re: VMs: Q. is there a to-do list?

[Ross Bender <ross.bender@xxxxxxxxx>]

More Newbold stuff up at http://rossbender.org/voynich6.html and ff.
Including Newbold's transliteration, Latin text, and English
translation of Roger Bacon's key. Also Plate XX -- "The Annular
Eclipse of 1290".  "That eclipse I observed at Oxford, on September
fifth, 1290."

Speaking of things Sumerian (see Nick's note on the enneagram below),
folks may be interested in my preliminary researches into Doonesbury
and the Sumerian Dingir and the development of the Asterisk:

http://rosslynnbender.org/ftp.rosslynnbender.org/2004_10_01_archive.html

Still haven't gotten over to the Archives, but I hope to do so before
the winter snows set in.

Best,

Ross Bender
http://rorschachmovie.html



On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:51:57 +0100, Nick Pelling
<nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Ross,
> 
> At 19:42 11/09/2004 -0400, Ross Bender wrote:
> >As I am new to this list, I'm not sure what y'all have on Newbold. His
> >  THE CIPHER OF ROGER BACON, edited by Roland Grubb Kent...
> 
> That's about all anyone has on Newbold, really. AFAIK there isn't a digital
> version of the book on the web - but AFAICR there isn't a great deal in the
> book to titillate our modern palettes. :-/
> 
> >I've slapped the title page and some samples up at:
> >http://rossbender.org/voynich.html
> 
> Great, thanks! :-)
> 
> >Yes, I will be happy to go to the
> >Archives and see what's there. However, it may be a few weeks until I
> >have time to do so.
> 
> No problem - you seem to be by far the best-placed person to do it. :-)
> 
> >  BTW Newbold persuaded Morton Easton to offer the first course in
> >  Sanskrit at Penn. Nowadays Stephen Tinney, associate curator of the
> >  Babylonian section at the University Museum, is heading the Sumerian
> >  Dictionary Project.
> 
> Curiously enough (linking in with the Myers-Briggs enneagram from Boje I
> flagged in a previous email), I actually emailed Steve Tinney a couple of
> years back, asking him whether there was any evidence that the enneagram
> was Sumerian (as its fans claim), but got no reply. However, at a
> conference I later attended, I sat next to someone who claimed to be the
> foremost world experts on both Gurdjieff and the enneagram: she told me
> that it was, without any doubt, an entirely modern invention. Just a
> sidenote! :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
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