The Rohonc Code: Tracing a Historical Riddle - Softcover

Láng, Benedek

 
9780271090207: The Rohonc Code: Tracing a Historical Riddle
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0271090200 ISBN 13: 9780271090207
Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

First discovered in a Hungarian library in 1838, the Rohonc Codex keeps privileged company with some of the most famous unsolved writing systems in the world, notably the Voynich manuscript, the Phaistos Disk, and Linear A. Written entirely in cipher, this 400-year-old, 450-page-long, richly illustrated manuscript initially gained considerable attention but was later dismissed as an apparent forgery. No serious scholar would study it again until the turn of the twenty-first century. This engaging narrative follows historian Benedek Láng's search to uncover the truth about this thoroughly mysterious book that has puzzled dozens of codebreakers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Benedek Láng is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is the author of Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe, also published by Penn State University Press.

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Verlag
Pennsylvania State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0271090200
ISBN 13 
9780271090207
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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