19-08-2017, 03:31 PM
(19-08-2017, 10:00 AM)Kestrel wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would suggest that there are in fact no Sphinxes or "schaedata" in the Marci to Kircher letter of 12 September 1640.
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Many thanks for bringing this up. For one thing it allowed me to correct a pointer to the wrong letter on my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
I can't say much about the 'Sphinx' reference, since I can't read the text with sufficient certainty.
On the 'schaedata' reading, this is indeed what Fletcher read, and I can't say to what extent Philip Neal was influenced by that.
The one thing that I am fairly confident about, is that the second last letter is not an 'l', because as far as I can see, Marci always writes the l as a single stroke. It's also not a typical t, but it fits better.