RE: VMs: DEE'S CRYSTAL BALL RECOVERED?

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The crystal and authenticating letter are reported to have been recovered: 
see the end of
this report in the Independent.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=596993

A happy New Year to all list members. I haven't had much time for 
Voynichology these past
few months but I hope to be posting more in 2005.

Philip Neal

> Fri 10 Dec 2004
>
> 3:24pm (UK)
> Daylight Raid on Science Museum Gallery
>
> By David Stringer, PA
>
>
> A rare 16th Century clairvoyance crystal and valuable documents were
> snatched in a daylight raid on a gallery at the Science Museum, it
> was
> confirmed today.

> The crystal, used as a tool by mediums and for curing disease,
> belonged
> to maverick philosopher, mathematician and astrologer John Dee, a
> consultant to Elizabeth I.


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