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substitution. The resultant quaternary text was then "translated":
Newbold replaced the pairs of letters with a single letter, presumably
according to a key, which, however, he never made clear. Newbold
regarded some letters of this reduced quinary text as equivalent to one
another because of phonetic similarity. When required, therefore, he
interchanged d and t, for example, b, f, and p, o, and u, and so on.
Finally, Newbold anagrammed the letters of this senary text to produce
his Latin plaintext.
In April, 1921, Newbold announced the preliminary results of his
solution according to this method before brilliant and learned audiences.
These results stamped Roger Bacon as the greatest scientific discoverer
of all time. According to Newbold, Bacon had recognized the Great
Nebula in Andromeda as a spiral galaxy, identified biological cells and
their nuclei, and come close to seeing the union of the sperm with the
ovum