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Paper on alchemical ciphers: Sarah Lang - Paul Ferguson - 11-02-2024
Situating ciphers among alchemical techniques of secrecy
Sarah Lang
University of Graz
"This paper offers a contextual frameworkfor the historical analysis of alchemical ciphers. It argues that they differ from other ciphers due to their unique context: the alchemical tradition embodies a performative culture of secrecy, which employs avariety of techniques to achieve this performance. This paper contends that the distinction between ‘secret as content’ versus ‘secrecy as practice’ presents a useful framework for understanding alchemical rhetorics of secrecy and their relationship to alchemical cryptography. Additionally, it demonstrates how these principles can be applied in interpreting several examples."
https://www.ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/histocrypt/article/view/698/604