Re: VMs: Spending lots of money...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis,

At 23:39 31/01/2004 -0600, Dennis wrote:
> Nick Pelling wrote:
> > Also, an accessible translation of Alberti's comments on cryptography and
> > his cipher disk would probably be very helpful:
>
>         This sounds highly doable for us now.
>
>         Too bad Jim Reeds isn't around right now; he'd be a
> great help.
> I assume you've had private discussions with him,
> Nick.  If not, he'd
> probably answer a few carefully selected questions.

FWIW, my first step AFA Alberti goes will be to read Anthony Grafton's 
(2000) biography, which looks to paint an interesting and balanced picture 
- and step two is to read the (2003) translation of Alberti's Momus on an 
interlibrary loan. *sigh* so many leads to follow, so little time... :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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