The Cipher of Roger Bacon / / William Romaine Newbold; Roland Grubb Kent.
The story of the discovery of the key of Bacon's system of ciphers and its application to the Voynich manuscript and other untranslated documents.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©1928 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 32 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Foreword
- I. The Forerunner of Modern Science
- II. The Voynich Cipher Manuscript of Roger Bacon: Sketch of Its History
- III. The Voynich Cipher Manuscript Of Roger Bacon: Sketch of Its Contents
- IV. The Principles of Roger Bacon's Cipher
- V. Following the Clues
- VI. The Derivation of the Biliteral Alphabets
- VII. The Script of the Shorthand Cipher
- VIII. Rules for Deciphering the Texts
- IX. The Interpretation of the Key
- X. The Annular Eclipse of 1290
- XI. The Great Nebula of Andromeda
- XII. The Comet of 1273
- XIII. Cato and Fulvius
- XIV. The Oxford Story
- XV. The Gunpowder Formula
- XVI. The Vatican Document
- XVII. The Paris Medical Text
- XVIII. The Formula for Producing Metallic Copper
- XIX. The Abbreviated Word about the Green Lion
- XX. The Tables of Values