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example extant of the reverse situation. For this and other reasons, Bird
rejected the solution.
The excitement simmered down. Newbold went back to continue his
solutions; other scholars weighed his conclusions. In 1926, Newbold
died. But his working notes, his solutions, and the chapters for the book
that he had projected were faithfully edited by his friend and colleague
Roland Grubb Kent. In 1928, they were published as The Cipher of Roger
Bacon. An important French philosopher, fitienne Gilson, later one of the
40 "immortals" of the Academic Francaise, though bewildered by the
method, accepted the results; a French specialist in Bacon, Raoul
Carton, enthusiastically endorsed both method and results. American
and British historians of medieval science were cooler.
In 1931, Manly, who had studied the Newbold method in detail,
concluded that it "is open to objections of so grave a character as to
make it impossible to accept the results." Warning that these results
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