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An increasing tendency to check “Dr Google” for worrying symptoms is driving health anxiety (Credit: PA)
The Italian artist Luigi Serafini wrote the Codex Seraphinianus in the 1970s with a writing system that still defies complete analysis. He has said there is no hidden meaning, and he wanted his alphabet to convey how children feel with books they cannot understand.
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Dr Google fuels health anxiety that costs taxpayers millions
The Rohonc Codex appeared, it is thought, in the 1700s in Hungary. Its unknown language appears to have more characters than any major language apart from Mandarin. Some think it a hoax.
Kat Lay, Health Correspondent
12.01am, September 07 2017
Trials of green energy will be launched on ships and ferries as part of plans to cut pollution levels (Credit: PA)
The Book of Soyga is a 16th century Latin treatise on magic. The Elizabethan scholar John Dee was supposedly obsessed with deciphering the encrypted tables it contained. It was presumed lost until manuscripts were found in the British and Bodleian libraries in the 1990s, when the formula to construct the tables was uncovered. Their contents remain a mystery, however.
Wind power for greener British ships
Graeme Paton, Transport Correspondent
12.01am, September 07 2017
Documents of the 18th century Great Enlightened Society of Oculists in Germany took 250 years to crack. Scholars realised that familiar letters were spaces and messages were in other symbols.
An increasing tendency to check “Dr Google” for worrying symptoms is driving health anxiety (Credit: PA)
The Italian artist Luigi Serafini wrote the Codex Seraphinianus in the 1970s with a writing system that still defies complete analysis. He has said there is no hidden meaning, and he wanted his alphabet to convey how children feel with books they cannot understand.
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Article text size
Dr Google fuels health anxiety that costs taxpayers millions
The Rohonc Codex appeared, it is thought, in the 1700s in Hungary. Its unknown language appears to have more characters than any major language apart from Mandarin. Some think it a hoax.
Kat Lay, Health Correspondent
12.01am, September 07 2017
Trials of green energy will be launched on ships and ferries as part of plans to cut pollution levels (Credit: PA)
The Book of Soyga is a 16th century Latin treatise on magic. The Elizabethan scholar John Dee was supposedly obsessed with deciphering the encrypted tables it contained. It was presumed lost until manuscripts were found in the British and Bodleian libraries in the 1990s, when the formula to construct the tables was uncovered. Their contents remain a mystery, however.
Wind power for greener British ships
Graeme Paton, Transport Correspondent
12.01am, September 07 2017
Documents of the 18th century Great Enlightened Society of Oculists in Germany took 250 years to crack. Scholars realised that familiar letters were spaces and messages were in other symbols.