According to Pliny the Elder in The Natural History, 77-79 C.E. (in an example of laodogmatika that Polybius would have contested) the art of painting originated with people tracing the outlines of one another’s shadows. Pliny later alludes…The Polybius square is the first of the early systems developed for substituting numbers for letters through fractionating to obscure plaintext message. To this date, cryptographers find the Polybius square extremely valuable. Its ability t…The Polybius square is the first of the early systems developed for substituting numbers for letters through fractionating to obscure plaintext message. To this date, cryptographers find the Polybius square extremely valuable. Its ability t…
Albrecht Dürer
artist · 4 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
The excerpts provided don't actually contain a substantive reference to Albrecht Dürer—he appears to be either missing from the course materials or mentioned only as a passing name. Given the course's focus on layering, encoding, and systems of representation, Dürer would likely be relevant as a Renaissance master of perspective, proportion, and technical drawing systems, but without clear textual evidence from the readings, I cannot construct an accurate note about how he functions in this particular seminar's argument.
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