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|  Posted 12-03-2013 at 13:44
The Voynich Manuscript, due for a return to the spotlight.
The Voynich Manuscript, due for a return to the spotlight.
It is well-known that Dan Brown likes to engage in fun games with his readers, often setting 'treasure hunts' through which they can get access to more information about his work than is readily available. Perhaps the most significant example was the cover of his bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, in which a number of codes were embedded that, when solved, gave hints to the topics that would be discussed in the next book in the series. By solving these ciphers, I was able to write a book predicting the content of The Lost Symbol some five years before it was released.
With the publication date of Brown's next novel Inferno now set (which, incidentally, seems to have been deliberately chosen in order to encode the value of Pi), what can we find if we search around for other possible clues to the strange topics that Dan Brown might explore this time? Taking a look at his website, we find a number of little puzzles waiting to be solved, one of which takes this form:
While at first glance this square of letters and numbers might look like gibberish, it's actually quite easily solved - it's a Caesar Square, where instead of reading left to right, top to bottom, we should instead read top to bottom, left to right. Doing so gives "MS408 Yale Library", the call number of a certain manuscript within Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library: the Voynich Manuscript.
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