HowToThinkLogically2NdEditionPdfThe infuriating Voynich Manuscript A. K. A. Beinecke MS 408, or the VMs contains about 240 pages of curious drawings, incomprehensible diagrams and. Core Curriculum I believe this small set of books is the best place to start to learn about the different classes of Mechanical Puzzles, examples from various eras. How To Think Logically 2Nd Edition Pdf' title='How To Think Logically 2Nd Edition Pdf' />Study Psychology 251 learning and behavior. Jade H. Looking for blog post ideas Youve come to the right place. Youve found the Ultimate List of Blog Post Ideas, 2nd Edition. NOTE Dont miss the Blog Post. Voynich Manuscript Cipher Mysteries. The infuriating Voynich Manuscript A. K. A. Beinecke MS 4. VMs contains about 2. How To Think Logically 2Nd Edition Pdf' title='How To Think Logically 2Nd Edition Pdf' />Whether a work of cipher genius or loopy madness, it is hard to deny it is one of those rare cases where the truth is many times stranger than fiction. Its last four hundred years of history can be squeezed into eight bullet points though theres much more detail here if youre interested Circa 1. Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf IICirca 1. Rudolf IIs Imperial Distiller Jacobus z Tepenecz. Circa 1. 63. 0 1. German Bohemian alchemist Georg Baresch. Circa 1. 64. 5 1. Johannes Marcus Marci of Cronland, who gave it to Athanasius Kircher. For the next few centuries, it was almost certainly owned by Jesuits moved around Europe. In 1. 91. 2, it was bought probably for peanuts by dodgy antiquarian book dealer Wilfrid Voynich. He bequeathed it to his wife Ethel, who bequeathed it to Anne Nill, who sold it to H. P. Kraus in 1. 96. In 1. 96. 9, Kraus donated it to Yale Universitys Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript Library. However, before 1. Voynich Manuscripts early art history is embarrassingly short Radiocarbon tests carried out in 2. The clear, upright handwriting is most often described as being reminiscent of either Carolingian minuscule 8. Italian Quattrocento revival form, the humanist hand circa 1. Several of its drawings have parallel hatching similar to Leonardo da Vincis so it was probably made after 1. Germany, after 1. Florence, or after 1. Two owners have added writing in what appear to be fifteenth century hands so it was probably made before 1. Some marginalia in the zodiac section appear to be in Occitan, where the spelling most resembles that known to be from Toulon so it is probable that the manuscript spent some time in South West France. There is strong codicological evidence that the current page order and binding order differ from the original i. A small number of the manuscripts plant drawings do seem to depict actual plants f. Proposed Syllabus for M. Sc. Computer Science in affiliated colleges to University of Pune To be implemented from Academic year 20112012. It should be pretty clear that we have two quite separate types of historical data here pre 1. My opinion which you can take or leave is that if we put more palaeographic effort into reading the VMs marginalia, we would very probably improve on this unsatisfactory situation. Powerslave Pc. For example, I believe that the top line of f. Furthermore, I suspect taht some of the chicken scratch marginalia may be ink blots saying Simon, and that these were added in the middle of the 1. VMs life. But who was this Simon Putting all the wobbly factuality to one side, this VMs account would be woefully incomplete if it failed to mention the sheer intellectual romance of such a mystery filled mega object, the tragi comedy of all the mad theories surrounding it, let alone the blood spattered trail of ruined reputations and wasted lives dripping behind this inscrutable Sphinx. For centuries, it has acted as a blank screen for numerous people to project their often somewhat demented historical cryptological novelistic fantasies onto, or if not that then an academic cliff to throw their hard earned reputation over yet recently there are signs that a few people are at long last starting to look at the VMs with relatively clear eyes. Better late than never, I supposeArguably the biggest question to face up to is this when people try to understand the VMs, why does it all go so wrong I suspect that the confusion arises from the central paradox of the Voynich Manuscript the way that its text resembles some unknown perhaps lost, secret, or private simple languagewhile simultaneously exhibiting many of the properties you might expect to see of a complex ciphertext i. Any proposed explanation should therefore not only bridge the century long historical gap, but also demonstrate why the VMs appears both language y and cipher y at the same time. To illustrate this, here are some practical examples of the way Voynichese letters dance to a tricky set of structural rules. Individual letter shapes frequently occuras the first letter of a page e. EVA t, k, p, fas the first letter of a paragraph e. EVA t, k, p, fas the first letter of a line e. EVA sas the last letter of a line e. EVA m or amas the first letter of a word e. EVA qoas the last letter of a word e. EVA y or dyas separated pairs on the top line of a page e. EVA p or fas a paired letter e. EVA ol, or, al, arunrepeated, except in EVA ee eee ii iii sets. From a code breakers point of view, this basically rules out Renaissance polyalphabetic ciphers, because they use multiple alphabets or offsets into alphabets to destroy the outward signs of internal structure and what we see here has even more signs of internal structure than normal languages. Yet just to be confusing, some of the letter shapes resemble shorthand both in their shape and their apparent positioning within words. So is Voynichese a language, a shorthand, a cipher, or perhaps some carefully orchestrated jumble of all threeRight now, nobody can say but perhaps it is this hard to pin down ness that has managed to keep the Voynichs mystery alive for all this time. Once you can appreciate that Voynichese is almost the opposite of chaotic that its absence of randomness is possibly its most remarkable aspect but yet none of the many visible patterns seem to help us decrypt it, youll perhaps begin your own journey into its mystery. Robs Puzzle Page Books. There are but a few good books solely focused on mechanical puzzles I wish there were more. You cant just waltz into a bookstore and find shelves full of them. Like others with an interest in this topic, I was. Delft and Botermans book Creative Puzzles of the World,. Slocums collaboration with Botermans. Below are some of the books in my library. They are in no particular order, though I have grouped them by subject matter subjectively, and tongue in cheek. Some of these stray into logic and mathematical puzzles. For some of the books, I have listed interesting contents. In some cases puzzles shown on this site are highlighted in bold. You wont find lots of links to sources here, since many of these books are out of print. Sandy Thompsons wonderful Twisty Puzzles site has a. Rubiks related books. John Rauschs site has a. You can also find links to several puzzle related books available for free download at. The Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania. Many of the books seem to be housed at. David Moewss home page.