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Star Charts From A Strange Book From The Past
serutan writes: "Today there is a really unusual Astronomy Picture of the Day that talks about a centuries-old book, written in an unknown language that is undeciphered to this date. The 265-page book, with its curly script and weird illustrations, reminds me a lot of a bizarre modern book called the Codex Seraphinus, but for real. Any crypto experts care to take a whack at this?" Update: The image was transitioned and the entry can be found Here - cd
Wow. They have been working on Perl 6 for a long time.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
It's that strange books in dead languages with lots of Astronomy illustrations are best left UNDECIPHERED!
I can see it, three weeks from now, a new article:
Well Meaning Hackers Awaken The Great Cthulhu
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It was clearly a doctor. All my prescriptions are written in a similar style.
"It is written in a language of which no other example is known to exist. It is an alphabetic script, but of an alphabet variously reckoned to have from nineteen to twenty-eight letters, none of which bear any relationship to any English or European letter system."
/th/ sound, although I may be confusing that with the eth and thorn characters (other archaic northern European characters which still survive in Icelandic and a few other places).
The alphabet looks rather obviously European-based. First off, much of what I can make out, looks vaguely reminiscent of letters like g, d, m, n, w, and a.
Secondly, that 3-like character near the end of the first line that sticks out like a sore thumb. Around the time this book was written, that character was a part of many northern European languages, including old English. I believe it stood for a
The very first character (which you can see in several places throughout) also caught my eye. It looks like a slightly-modified version of the "feature key" you see on Apple keyboards, which is a symbol of Viking origin.
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I would be interested in trying to decipher this. Anynone know where I can find some more pages (or the whole book)?
Funny, I would have thought those guys had more pressing matters to attend to during that period of time.
Well, the reasoning probably was, "If we break this code, we could potentially use it or a derivative of it as our own code."
That's one professor that never learned his lesson during his gaming sessions of Call of Cthulu.