Voynichův rukopis - Nejzáhadnější kniha světa (2012)

The first facsimile edition of the most mysterious book in the world, the Voynich Manuscript, which many experts consider the "Holy Grail of historical cryptography" (and which also inspired Dan Brown for his bestseller The Lost Symbol), is supplemented by an extensive introductory study by the renowned researcher and mystery expert Jitka Lenková. The mysterious manuscript has puzzled philologists, cryptographers, and amateur codebreakers from around the world for at least 100 years (since 1912, when it was discovered by American collector Wilfrid M. Voynich in a Jesuit monastery in Frascati, Italy). So far unsuccessfully. No one has been able to definitively decipher a single page or explain a single illustration... despite the most brilliant minds on the planet attempting to uncover its secrets. Although renowned experts and amateur researchers are trying to get to the bottom of the Voynich Manuscript's mystery using the latest scientific methods, including statistical approaches used in reading the human genome, the secrets of this text continue to resist. Even cryptography experts from the American National Security Agency (NSA) failed, having transcribed it into machine code in the 1960s and 70s and attempted to decipher it using computers, including the use of technology...