MarcoP > 06-04-2020, 04:24 PM
Mark Knowles > 06-04-2020, 04:38 PM
Stephen Carlson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thanks for the wonderful chart. That Fontana MS is really impressive as a comparandum. I wonder if something like that was a model for how the VM should look, even though the process used to produce it must be different.
Mark Knowles > 08-04-2020, 03:39 PM
Mark Knowles > 08-04-2020, 03:44 PM
Mark Knowles > 08-04-2020, 03:50 PM
Mark Knowles > 08-04-2020, 04:08 PM
davidjackson > 08-04-2020, 09:14 PM
(06-04-2020, 04:38 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is true his is a very simple cipher and therefore one might regard that as commonplace knowledge that he could have found easily.To sum up my own personal thoughts on Fontana: I think he was one of those people who took a quantitative leap with common knowledge. He was familiar with basic ciphers; he took the idea of a cipher and turned it into a code for personal reasons. Most probably for the first time in history. His idea was an antecedent of the same one that caused educated 18th/19th century Western gentleman to write in Greek or Latin - to hide ideas from the common person, to ensure that only the educated could read his work.
Mark Knowles > 08-04-2020, 09:43 PM
(08-04-2020, 09:14 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To sum up my own personal thoughts on Fontana: I think he was one of those people who took a quantitative leap with common knowledge. He was familiar with basic ciphers; he took the idea of a cipher and turned it into a code for personal reasons. Most probably for the first time in history. His idea was an antecedent of the same one that caused educated 18th/19th century Western gentleman to write in Greek or Latin - to hide ideas from the common person, to ensure that only the educated could read his work.
He wasn't trying to hide his work from the world, he was trying to ensure that only those worthy of access could read it.
Mark Knowles > 08-04-2020, 10:02 PM
-JKP- > 08-04-2020, 11:21 PM
(08-04-2020, 09:43 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.