Polygraphia (book)

Polygraphia (book)

Copy of Polygraphia .
Author Johannes Trithemius
Original title Polygraphia
Country Germany
Language Latin
Genre Cryptographic, steganography
Publication date
1518
Published in English
N/A
Media type Printed book
Preceded by Steganography

Polygraphia is a Cryptographic work written by Johannes Trithemius published in 1518 dedicated to the art of Steganography.[1]

Review

It is composed of five books, the work consists of five books and a collarbone

Example alphabet.

The work ends with alphabets of his invention as the "tetragramaticus" formed by 4 characters that are diversified in 24 letters and the "enagramaticus" of 9 characters and 28 letters, from which he gives examples of writings that belongs to something it resembles a natural language.

Relationship with steganography

According to some scholars, both books, Steganographia and Polygraphia are but a single work presented in two parts: the first is metaphysical and quite theoretical (arriving to hide a full treaty "angelology," or study of angels with their names and hierarchies, between its pages), the second is more practical and is used for encoding messages.

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