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Why? KPMG Forensic’s 2006 Survey of Fraud in Australia and New Zealand Most Popular Motives for Fraud: – greed/lifestyle (54%) – gambling (22%) – personal financial pressure (5%) – other (5%) – not specified (3.5%) – opportunity (0.4%) – substance abuse (0.4%)
BUT: what if Voynich knew that? BUT: same signature in other docs de Tepenecz signature suspiciously found during overexposure Marci letter very convenient faked to add a Roger Bacon connection? Who? member of Society of Friends of Russian Freedom BUT: Baresch letter later found in Kircher archive also mention Bacon spoke 18 languages suggested in Kennedy & Churchill, 2005 said to have faked passports Needed $ who doesn’t? tricky said to have traded newer, “better” books for monks’ old dirty ones BUT: What if Voynich had seen that letter?
Page 1 and 2: the Voynich Manuscript Kevin Knight
Page 3 and 4: Outline • Voynich Manuscript - VM
Page 5 and 6: 38,000 words of text
Page 7 and 8: Many pictures look like grafting. T
Page 9 and 10: The Pictures: Astrological What is
Page 11 and 12: The Pictures: Pharmacological medic
Page 13 and 14: One-Page Letter Tucked Into VMS Rev
Page 15 and 16: History of Voynich Manuscript 1576-
Page 17 and 18: History of Voynich Manuscript 1864
Page 19 and 20: History of Voynich Manuscript 1576-
Page 21 and 22: Newbold System • Example: a n n
Page 23 and 24: William Newbold, Polymath, PhD UPen
Page 25 and 26: PCC89 … apparent ciphertext Let
Page 27 and 28: Newbold Decipherment 1300 real ciph
Page 29 and 30: Transcription BSC8AE OPCC9 4OE FCC8
Page 31 and 32: Introduction to Astrology and Its U
Page 33 and 34: Alphabet: Currier/D’Imperio C S Z
Page 35 and 36: Alphabet: Currier/D’Imperio C S Z
Page 37 and 38: Most Frequent Words count word coun
Page 39 and 40: Features of the Text • 115 (out o
Page 41 and 42: • Newbold (1921) Cryptogram • M
Page 43 and 44: “ Writing in Tongues ” suggeste
Page 45: How? • Gordon Rugg (Scientific Am
Page 49 and 50: Substitution Cipher ingcmpnqsnwf cv
Page 51 and 52: Substitution Cipher e e e the ingcm
Page 53 and 54: Substitution Cipher e he e of the i
Page 55 and 56: Substitution Cipher e he e of the i
Page 57 and 58: Cryptodict abacdefb ACADEMIC abacde
Page 59 and 60: Generative Models Spanish letter tr
Page 61 and 62: Hypothesize Other Source Languages
Page 63 and 64: Unknown Source Language Input Best
Page 65 and 66: Generative Models • Okay, that di
Page 67 and 68: Generative Models Trigram model ove
Page 69 and 70: Generative Models Trigram model ove
Page 71 and 72: English Voynich a � b � a � b
Page 73 and 74: Generative Models Bigram model over
Page 75 and 76: 600 400 200 0 Generative Models Voy
Page 77 and 78: 600 400 200 0 Generative Models Voy
Page 79 and 80: Captain Currier’s “Two Language
Page 81 and 82: Focus Further Experiments on Voynic
Page 83 and 84: a c e i b f g h j d 10-class taggin
Page 85 and 86: 10 Classes of words: Voynich-B Tags
Page 87 and 88: • Voynich Manuscript Conclusion -

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