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The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax
- Published_at:2017-05-25
- Category:Education
- Channel:TED-Ed
- tags: TED TED-Ed TED Education TED Ed Stephen Bax Voynich Voynich Manuscript gallows characters code cipher poem Wilfrid Voynich Italy Italian language Easter Island Roger Bacon John Dee grammar witches martians carbon dating Rudolf II Jacobus Sinapius
- description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-world-s-most-mysterious-book-stephen-bax Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it’s one of history’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The reason why? No one can figure out what it says. Stephen Bax investigates this cryptic work. Lesson by Stephen Bax, animation by TED-Ed.
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