Re: Re: VMs: Argentina...and Moretus

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,

At 09:52 02/01/2005 -0500, Jan Hurych wrote:
> in his second letter, Baresh made a hint that the first letter may have
> never reached Kircher -  but at the same time he claims the deliverer
> reached Rome safely. Since Baresh did not get any answer from Kircher,
> he was trying  to excuse him.

I think he was just trying to be impeccably polite. :-)

> We may understand it better when we realize Kircher was once tricked to
> "solve" the fake and was then publicly exposed to some ridicule. He
> apparently threw the first  letter and the attachment in  garbage, judging
> by  the fact he kept the second letter.

Kircher was definitely tricked beforehand, but probably not by the VMs: 
does anyone recall what year he was fooled, and by whom? I seem to recall 
an ornate mirror script being described on-list, but no scan of it ever 
being posted - Kircher probably did destroy that one. :-)

BTW, has anyone been to Culver City to see "The World is Bound With Secret 
Knots
The Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher"? Could be real, cpuld be fake - 
very hard to tell. :-o
        http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/Knots.html

> P.S. There was a rumor at that time that  Jesuits secretly buried the
> archive in their cellar before they had to leave Prague 1773, but I doubt if
> we get permission to dig there :-).

Does anyone know the address? A ground-penetrating radar scan might help to 
convince the owners that it's worth the effort. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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