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An Edition of Jacobus Colius, ‘Tractatus de fictis charateribus’ or ‘Tractate on Ciphers'
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In 1584, a twenty year-old London scholar-merchant of Flemish origin composed a hitherto neglected tract on the cryptanalysis and encryption of Latin and the major Western European vernaculars. He then revised it two years later. He was known in Neo-Latin scholarly circles as Jacobus Colius (1563-1628), or Ortelianus, as the nephew of the great geographer Ortelius, and his tract is worth resurrecting as an example of an early cryptographical text by a man who later in his life might serve as ...
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- Publication status:
- Not published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:5008
- Deposit date:
- 2011-02-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Poole, W
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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