VMs: Chinese and post medieval European cryptography

[Luis Velez <luis.velez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Following Jacques Guy's theory, enhanced by Stolfi, Mardle et al., here's a few insightful paragraphs on the use of Mandarin in XVII Century European Cryptography, including Kircher's 'China Ilustrata' and Leibniz's 'Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese (1716):

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/WritingScience/Cryptography.html

Luis