Mystery Script in Rare Copy of Homer's 'Odyssey' solved

An Italian computer engineer with a keen interest in languages has solved the mystery of some perplexing scribblings found in the margins of a centuries-old copy of Homer’s “The Odyssey.”The handwritten notations, a combination of French and a mystery script, appear on about 20 pages throughout Book 11 of a 1504 Venetian edition of “Odyssey” that was donated to the University of Chicago Library in 2007 by collector M.C. Lang. The script was thought to date back to the mid-19th century, but nothing else was known about it. Daniele Metilli, an engineer and software developer who is studying digital humanities at the University of Pisa, has identified the mystery script as a system of shorthand invented by Frenchman Jean Coulon de Thévénot in the late 18th century. NBC News, May 6,2014

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Daniele Metilli published his findings at his website on May 5, 2014. Shown here is the chart for the First Quarter Moon of May 7, just two days after his work was published. Notice the Uranus-Pluto linked Grand Cross on the meridian axis. In much the same way as Uranus-Pluto is associated with volcanic eruptions – the sudden rising (Uranus) of material hidden in the depths of the earth (Pluto) – symbolically it is also linked to astonishing breakthroughs (Uranus) in the deciphering of hidden or ancient material (Pluto/Hades) as in the news event here. Notice also that Mercury, the planet associated with books and scripts, forms hard aspects to Uranus and Pluto.