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The Voynich Manuscript

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Importance of Copying

There are no scratch outs or erasures in the whole entirety of the book. So it does not seem like somebody was actually trying to make an accurate set of words on the paper. The big proponent of the theory is Gordon Rugg, and he's head of the Knowledge Modeling Group at Keel University in Staffordshire, England. And another suspect implicated in that is Edward Kelly, who was a hanger on in the court of Elizabeth I and became very close with John D.

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