VMs: Geheimsymbole der Arzneikunde (was: Reprint)

["PKaz" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Gustav Wilhelm Geßmann
> Geheimsymbole der Arzneikunde, Alchemie und Astrologie
> I read it, but so far did not discover any direct VMS connection.
> Jean

I have borrowed the book from the KB. It is striking :
- there are indeed no obvious connections to the VMS
- BUT there are - at first sight - a lot of symbols that were used in
Renaissance crypto (i.e. Tranchedino, Papal cryptography, etc.).

So:
- many VMS-period cryptographers used alchemistic/astrological symbols
- the author of the VMS did not use this imagery
==> the author was NOT a cryptographer?

The more I notice the difference between all Renaissance crypto I know of -
and the VMS, the more I'm starting to believe in the hoax hypothesis.

I'll try to spot some obvious matches between Tranchedino and Gessman's
symbols. Or hase anyone already done this?

Greetings, Petr


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