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the Voynich Manuscript a mystery - Information Sciences Institute

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Newbold Decipherment<br />

1300 real ciphertext “letters” in first 3 lines<br />

Decipherment of those first lines:<br />

“I, Roger Bacon, have written this…”<br />

(in Latin)<br />

Anagramming sets of 55 letters is sometimes required.<br />

Slow but steady progress… Andromeda galaxy,<br />

ovaries & ova … so Bacon must have had a<br />

microscope & telescope, hundreds of years before<br />

<strong>the</strong>y were discovered!

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