| 书目名称 | Unraveling the Voynich Codex | | 编辑 | Jules Janick,Arthur O. Tucker | | 视频video | | | 概述 | First scientifically researched study on the Voynich Codex.Expertly written with colorful illustrations for scientists and educated laypersons.Unique perspective on a Mesoamerican lost language | | 丛书名称 | Fascinating Life Sciences | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Unraveling the Voynich Codex. reviews the historical, botanical, zoological, and iconographic evidence related to the Voynich Codex, one of the most enigmatic historic texts of all time...The bizarre Voynich Codex has often been referred to as the most mysterious book in the world. Discovered in an Italian Catholic college in 1912 by a Polish book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, it was eventually bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. It contains symbolic language that has defied translation by eminent cryptologists. The codex is encyclopedic in scope and contains sections known as herbal, pharmaceutical, balenological (nude nymphs bathing in pools), astrological, cosmological and a final section of text that may be prescriptions but could be poetry or incantations. Because the vellum has been carbon dated to the early 15.th. century and the manuscript was known to be in the collection of Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire sometime between 1607 and 1622, current dogma had assumed it a European manuscript of the 15.th. century. However, based on identification of New World plants, animals, a mineral, as well as cities and volcanos of Cen | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Mesoamerica; Cryptography; Ancient manuscript; Lost language; Herbal; Botany; Systematic Botany | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77294-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-08421-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-77294-3Series ISSN 2509-6745 Series E-ISSN 2509-6753 | | issn_series | 2509-6745 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 |
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