Re: Misovsky's MS in Uppsala

[reeds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Reeds)]

On Jun 25,  0:45, Rene Zandbergen wrote:

[about high speed language instruction]
> 
> I (almost) hate to bring this up, but didn't Roger Bacon make
> some related claims? (About a general method for teaching any
> language in a minimal amount of time?)

I don't know.  Bacon wrote a lot, & I wouldn't know where to
look.  If Bacon did, then Trithemius's use of this idea is
another example of his general stragegy of giving his cryptography
the appearance of magic.


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