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Re: VMs: Wikipedia & the vms
Hi Gabriel
Others with more detailed notes of their perusals of the Kelley
materials may have more to say.
I looked at Kelley's material on Enochian in the British Library. It
is not obvious to me he used a grill. He created enormous numbers of
enormous (49x49) grids of letters (seemingly at random). He appeared
to be using these to create texts.
It is interesting to speculate on Occam's Razor and human endeavours.
If one can achieve (laboriously) a given goal with a simple technique
this may be preferred to a more complex technique - which is initially
less attractive - even though the complexity comes with greater 'power'
or 'generality' or whatever. In other words - the creator of an
artefact may indeed persevere with a simple technique at the expense of
saved-time/elegance which would come with something more complex.
On the other hand, we who try to recover the creative process are
tempted to avoid Occam's injunction and leap to complex
scenarios/solutions when they may not be relevant/appropriate.
Cheers
William
On 11 Oct 2004, at 12:34, Gabriel Landini wrote:
It says in the "Hoax" of the vms in the Wikipeda section that:
---
'' The latter device, known as a Cardan grille, was invented around
1550 as an
encryption tool, and was apparently used by Edward Kelley to fabricate
his
Enochian "language". ''
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How true is this "apparently"? I have not been able to find any
source to
point where this speculation is coming from.
Cheers,
Gabriel
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