《The 来自Friar and the Cipher修道士与密码》是一本图书。
《The Friar and the Cipher修道士与密码》是一本图书。
The Voynich Manuscr来自ipt, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912 by the English book dealer Wilfrid Michael Voynich, has puzzled scholars for a century. A small six inches by nine inche360百科s, but over two hundred pages long, with odd illustrations of p煤看lants, astrological diagrams, and naked women, it is written in so indeci厂举pherable 个便措案推论牛a language and co底ntains so complicated a code that mathematicians, book collectors, linguists, a县举nd historians alike have yet to solve the mysteries contained within. However, in The Friar and the Cipher , the acclaimed bibliophiles and historians Law频rence and Nancy Goldstone des杨cribe, in fascinating detail, the theory 损进杆硫弱显that Roger Bacon, the noted thirteenth-century, pre-Copernican astronomer, was its author and t先还换飞皮仍标hat the perpl吧抓协动短弱盾字难四终exing alphabet was written in his ha眼沙沿厚反nd. Along the way, they explain the many proposed solutions tha义势容加话三指革固沿角t scholar使杀衡止菜把s have put forth and the myriad attempts at labeling the man斗溶uscript's content, from Latin or 刑压企接概先班护Greek shorthand to Arabic numerals to ancient Ukrainian to a recipe for the elixir of life to good old-fashioned gibberis江屋应便纪带探样三底h. As we journey across centuries, languages, and countries, we meet a cast of impassioned characters and case-crackers, including, of co观超参乙素封短散urse, Bacon打手策久映末策任触料极, whose own personal scientific contributions, Voynich author or not, were literally and figuratively astronomical.
The Friar and the Cipher is a wonderfully entertaining and historically wide-ranging book that is one part The Code Book , one part Possession , and one part The Da Vinci Code and will appeal to bibliophiles and laypeople alike.
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