The Voynich Manuscript, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Browse the libraries of the world and you’ll find nothing stranger and perplexing than the so-called Voynich Manuscript, a 15th century tome that has perplexed linguists and codebreakers for hundreds of years -- and remains a mystery. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss just why we can't stop looking to its weird pages.

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1:49.6	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.
1:52.7	And I'm Joe McCormick and we are back with part two of our exploration of the Voynich
1:57.3	manuscript or the Vaughnich manuscript we've been saying both. This medieval manuscript that has
2:02.5	fascinated scholars, cryptographers for decades now, or actually not just decades for centuries,
2:09.4	but especially since it was reintroduced to the world around 1912 and has become the subject
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