Robert Brumbaugh

Robert Sherrick Brumbaugh (December 2, 1918 – July 14, 1992) was an American philosopher and a professor of medieval philosophy at Yale University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. Brumbaugh's scholarly work spanned various areas of philosophy, with a particular focus on ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato. He also delved into historical mysteries, notably the Voynich manuscript, which he analyzed in "The most mysterious manuscript: the Voynich 'Roger Bacon' cipher manuscript." His other works include "Plato on the one: the hypotheses in the Parmenides," "Ancient Greek gadgets and machines," and "Western philosophic systems and their cyclic transformations."