Johannes Trithemius
theologian · 2 mentions across 2 readings
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Johannes Trithemius was a 15th-century German polymath and cryptographer whose combinatorial and symbolic systems bridged medieval occultism and early modern computation. He appears in the course lineage as a developer of recombinatory wheels and cryptographic methods that prefigure modern algorithmic thinking, positioned alongside Llull, Bruno, and Kircher in a genealogy of mechanical logic systems. The readings invoke him to show how esoteric philosophy and hidden communication techniques anticipate contemporary concerns with code, encryption, and the automation of symbolic manipulation.
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