John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga

Jim Reeds, 2006. International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives internationales d’histoire des idées.

A chapter on the Book of Soyga, the magic book once owned by John Dee, showing that its tables of letters were generated by a fixed rule.

Voynich ManuscriptChapterdoi: 10.1007/1-4020-4246-9_10Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The linguistics survey cites it for how the Soyga tables were generated and how copying errors confirmed the rule.

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Mathematics, linguistics

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Cite it

Reeds, J. (2006). John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga. International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives internationales d’histoire des idées. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4246-9_10

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Reeds, Jim. “John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga.” International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives internationales d’histoire des idées (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4246-9_10.