APOD 2.2

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The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (Jan. 31 2010)

This manuscript was exceptionally intriguing to me because it is an ancient text that has no title, no known author, and is written in no known language. By looking at it though it becomes clear that it does have some sort of astronomical significance. Pictured above is an illustration from the book that appears to be somehow related to the Sun. The book labels some patches of the sky with unfamiliar constellations. The mysterious book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold for thousands of dollars, and later donated to Yale University. Possibly written in the fifteenth century, the over 200-page volume is known most recently as theVoynich Manuscript, after its discovered once again in 1912. Not only are modern historians of astronomy unable to understand the origins of these constellations, modern code-breakers are also unable to understand the book's text.