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fanciful herbal.
But no one yet knows, and the book lies quietly inside its slipcase in
the blackness of Yale's vaults, possibly a time bomb in the history of
science, awaiting the man who can interpret what is still the most
mysterious manuscript in the world.
20. The Anatomy of Cryptology
CRYPTOGRAPHY and cryptanalysis are sometimes called twin or reciprocal
sciences, and in function they indeed mirror one another. What one does
the other undoes. Their natures, however, differ fundamentally.
Cryptography is theoretical and abstract. Cryptanalysis is empirical and
concrete.
*Mrs. Voynich deserves a footnote. Her novel, The Gadfly, has sold
more than 2,500,000 copies in translation in the Soviet Union, •where
critics revere her as one of the all-time greats in English fiction. The
patriotic romance, a best-seller when it was published in England in
1897, is read by most Russian schoolchildren, forms the subject of Soviet
annaabi.ee 
