A Cryptographic Audit of Sir Francis Bacon's Word Cipher (1623) · Outreach 9
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The Orifex Specimen: Reverse-Engineering an Elizabethan Cipher
How a single broken sentence in the 1623 First Folio — the “Orifex” crux in Troilus and Cressida — became the founding test case for decoding Dr. Orville Owen’s Word Cipher. The film walks through the six-step mechanism and the modern computational audit that reconstructed it.
The Thousand-Foot Canvas: A Shakespeare Machine
A long-form conversation on Dr. Owen’s cipher wheel — the ~1,000-foot canvas of glued book-fragments now held in Gardiner, Montana — what it was built to do, why its arrangement (not the books) is the one irreplaceable record, and what a conservation-first digital scan could finally settle.
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Research by Walter H. Wilkinson · New Gorhambury