Tag: #Cryptography
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Maybe The Voynich Manuscript Was Never Meant to Be Solved
Six Hundred Gold Ducats for a Book No One Could Read Rudolf II kept his most prized possessions close. Astrolabes. Alchemical texts. A menagerie of exotic animals most of Europe had never seen. Sometime during Rudolf II’s reign, according to a letter written decades later, he added something stranger to the collection: a manuscript written…