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Recueil de Machines Militaires avec l Alphabet de Trithemius
Thybourel / Appier-Hanzelet / Trithemius
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
No English translation of this 1620 French military and pyrotechnic manual by François Thybourel and Jean Appier dit Hanzelet was found in any major catalog or scholarly bibliography. While the work includes an alphabet by Johannes Trithemius, whose own cryptographic works have been translated, this specific 'Recueil' remains untranslated in its entirety.
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Step into the visionary world of Renaissance warfare where 'ingenious invention' triumphs over raw strength. This remarkable treatise reveals the secrets of 17th-century military engineering, from mobile heptagonal forts that 'sprout like mushrooms' to the sophisticated steganography of Johannes Trithemius.
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