Alchemical Ciphers

Seven metals, ringed with four magical inscriptions: what other secrets does the ‘Alchemical Hand Bell’ hold?
Richard Bean, Corinna Gannon
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Deciphering the *Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla*: Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy
This article presents the decryption, historical analysis, and alchemical interpretation of an alchemical cipher found in a shared …
Megan Piorko, Sarah Lang, Richard Bean
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Situating ciphers among alchemical techniques of secrecy
This paper offers a contextual framework for the historical analysis of alchemical ciphers. It argues that they differ from other …
Sarah A. Lang
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The cipher of Emperor Rudolf II’s “Alchemical Hand Bell”
We examine a cipher found inscribed in the so-called “Alchemical Hand Bell” from the Kunstkammer of Emperor Rudolf II.
Richard Bean, Corinna Gannon, Sarah Lang
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Solving an alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee
This paper builds on a work in progress by Lang and Piorko published in HistoCrypt 2021, which presented a seventeenthcentury …
Richard Bean, Sarah Lang, Megan Piorko
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Solving an alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee
This paper builds on a work in progress by Lang and Piorko published in HistoCrypt 2021, which presented a seventeenthcentury …
Richard Bean, Sarah Lang, Megan Piorko
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Deciphering the Philosophers' Stone: how we cracked a 400-year-old alchemical cipher
Richard Bean, Megan Piorko
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An alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee (Sloane MS 1902) [Work In Progress]
Alchemy, while being known for its secrecy, cryptographical and stylistic devices, isn’t known for its ciphers in particular. However, …
Sarah Lang, Megan Piorko
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An alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee (Sloane MS 1902) [Work In Progress]
Alchemy, while being known for its secrecy, cryptographical and stylistic devices, isn’t known for its ciphers in particular. However, …
Sarah Lang, Megan Piorko
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