Rene,
Here are a few references to the individuals you mentioned below.
Johannes Sambucus:
Richard Strein:
Jacopo Strada:
Ottavio Strada: (Jacopo's son)
Katerina Stradova: (Jacopo's daughter)
Dana
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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:19
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Subject: Re: VMs: Hi from another
newbie
Dear all,
in response to the following
conversation:
>>> what's wrong with the dee-kelly
hypothesis?
>> The fact that the only evidence available
is
>> circumstantial at best.
> IMHO that does not justify
a strong sentence like
> "we don't believe that Dee and Kelly had
anything
> to do with it either", especially since there
> are
not better hypotesis available (AFAIK)
There is no positive evidence
that Dee and/or
Kelly sold the VMs to Rudolf.
There are literally
hundreds of people who sold
items to Rudolf, who was a veritable collector
of
art and artefacts.
There are many people known to have
sold books
to Rudolf.
Wilfrid Voynich wrote in his 1922 article that he
had
studied this part of history, and identified John
Dee as the most likely
candidate, because he was
most likely to sell a book of R.Bacon to
Rudolf.
Since this selection criterium has been discredited,
Dee is
no longer the most likely candidate!
Because of Voynich's statement,
the lives of Dee
and Kelly have been scrutinised in order to find
more
potential evidence. Nothing firm has been
found, but lots of circumstantial
stuff.
Had other people been scrutinsed as much in
this direction, I
am fully convinced that equal
amounts
of circumstantial would have been
found. This
is pure speculation, but I think it is justified - we
see as
much in this list, where supporting evidence
for any and every theory can
be collected easily.
Three candidates (among the many) whom I
would
find particularly promising in this respect (more so
than Dee or
Kelly) would be:
- Joannes Sambucus
- Richard Strein von
Schwarzenau
- Jacopo Strada
I doubt that the internet is a good
source for details
about these people, but you never
know....
Cheers,
Rene
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