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German Renaissance Man
Georg Henisch (1549-1618) was one of the most outstanding Renaissance men and humanists in sixteenth-century "middle Europa." By the same token, he is practically unknown on the other side of Atlantic. Out of his 32 major and minor publications, only six found their way to Yale University's libraries, and a few others are scattered throughout other US universities. His name is not mentioned in major sixteenth-century source books written by American scholars except for credit given to him as an author of the first Thesaurus. The story starts (Chapter 1) in then upper Hungary, in a town then named Bartfeld. It was a rich town, then dominated by protestant German settlers, and governed by no-n...
The Ciphers of the Monks
This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing i...
