Why did Giovanni Fontana write his book in cipher?
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(30-12-2020, 02:29 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(29-12-2020, 09:15 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's a simple substitution cipher. A mnemonic one. It takes 10 minutes to break it.
If you had actually read my blog, all of it, you would have seen me mention that Fontana WROTE A BOOK on mnemonic strategies and ways to arrange letters (Secretum de thesauro experimentorum ymaginationis hominum).

So do you disagree with John Friedman in the article Michelle cites?
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RE: Why did Giovanni Fontana write his book in cipher? - by Mark Knowles - 30-12-2020, 02:54 AM

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