New Blog post: "Mysterious Steganography"- a Damning Observation

[MarcoP]

Maro.

assuming you are right (which I don't, but it doesn' matter), where is the difference in meaning, i.e. that K. had seen these kind of writings and had read them?

Hi Helmut,
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as evidence that Kircher thought of the manuscript as a cipher: that's why I researched this word. From my point of view, "huius farinae" has a clearer meaning, but I don't believe it makes any substantial difference.

My own personal speculation is that Kircher was very much in the same position as many contemporary researchers: he had no clear idea about the nature of the script as a cipher or another kind of strange writing system. Similarly to the first impression of many people, he thought that, with a little time and effort, the manuscript would have been readable.