John Wilkins
chief founder of the Royal Society Of London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkins
wrote Crypto Graphy book Mercury which Neal Stephenson semi-renames The Crypto Nomicon.
wrote An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
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full text online with scans of the original pages http://reliant.teknowledge.com/Wilkins/
- also includes links to pieces by Umberto Eco
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essay about it by Jorge Luis Borges
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