A prized manuscript in the University of Michigan library that was believed to have been written by the famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is a forgery, the university said. The one-page ...
The 15th-century Voynich manuscript has puzzled scholars and confounded attempts to decipher it for centuries. Its 200-odd pages contain dozens of colorful illustrations of plants, astrological ...
In 1912, rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich was rooting through dusty chests of manuscripts in Villa Mondragone, a Jesuit college just outside of Rome. The Jesuits had decided to sell some of their ...
Image courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University/Wikimedia Commons For more than a century, scholars and experts have puzzled over the mysterious manuscript known today as ...
The Voynich Manuscript is a star among manuscript mysteries, but few have had the opportunity to spend time flipping through its curious contents. This month, Yale University Press released the first ...
The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping glyphs that refuse to yield a single clear sentence. A new cryptologic ...
In a BBC documentary series earlier this year called “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World,” the eccentric British filmmaker Adam Curtis mounted a pastiche of images ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...
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