Hi Dana,
Happy New Year to you and VMS-list!
Thanks for the attached, this is certainly an interesting article about VMS. I was struck by the reference to Moretto. The conveyor of the Baresch letters to Kircher seems to be Moretus, already
referenced by Rafal especially:
He certainly is of interest, being an alleged intermediary between the ellusive alchemist and Athanasius.
I searched a bit about him and found he was really linked to Kircher:
Here is a confirmation and more details about his role in Prague:
"In 1637 Baresch wrote his first letter to Kircher, and from his later reference to it we may conclude that he was familiar with Kircher's Prodromus Coptus, which appeared in 1636. He sent this letter via the famous Prague matematician Theodor Moretus S.J. This letter (which should have been accompanied by some transcriptions of the Voynich MS) is lost. "
Moretus, born 1601 or 1602, was in Prague from 1630 to 1667 and died that year in this city. The story seems plausible...and since it s a time for wishes perhaps the letter lost and its accompanying transcriptions of the VMS are still somewhere?
Jean
Dana Scott <dscott520@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The following article in Spanish concerning the VMs was written by Marcelo Dos Santos for the Argentinian web based magazine Axxon:
"El Manuscrito Voynich"
Tycho Brahe referenced by Marcelo in a separate article for Axxon: (note Star chart)
"The Inconceivable History of Witches, Cystitis [which may have contributed to Tycho's demise] and Celestial Mechanics"
Axxon, Science Fiction in Bits:
Happy New Year!
Dana