Patience & FortitudeBasbanes, Nicholas A.
9780767914734
The Friar And The Cipher: Roger Bacon And The Unsolved Mystery Of The Most Unusual Manuscript in the World
Lawrence Goldstone; Nancy Goldstone; Nancy Bazelon Goldstone
ISBN 10: 0767914732 / 0-7679-1473-2
ISBN 13: 9780767914734
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780767914734
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
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The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912 by the English book dealer Wilfrid Michael Voynich, has puzzled scholars for almost a century. Only six inches by nine inches, but over two hundred pages long, with odd illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams, and naked women, it is written in so indecipherable a language and contains so complicated a code that mathematicians, book collectors, linguists, and historians alike have yet to solve the mysteries contained within. However, in The Friar and the Cipher, the acclaimed bibliophiles and historians Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone describe, in fascinating detail, the theory that Roger Bacon, the noted thirteenth-century pre-Copernican astronomer, was its author and that the perplexing alphabet was written in his hand. Along the way, they explain the many proposed solutions that scholars have put forth and the myriad attempts at labeling the manuscript's content, from Latin or Greek shorthand to Arabic numerals to ancient Ukrainian to a recipe for the elixir of life to good old-fashioned gibberish. As we journey across centuries, languages, and countries, we meet a cast of impassioned characters and case-crackers, including, of course, Bacon, whose own personal scientific contributions, Voynich author or not, were literally and figuratively astronomical.
THE FRIAR AND THE CIPHER is a compulsively readable and historically wide-ranging book that is one part The Code Book, one part Possession, and one part The Da Vinci Code, and will appeal to bibliophiles and laypeople alike.
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