The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester

Chapter 6, is on “Secret writing with the common letters, by changing

of their places.”

In chapter 11, “Of writing by invented characters,” he says: “There have been some other inventions of writing by points, or lines, or figures.”

Chapter 13 is, “concerning an universal character that may be legible

to all nations and languages,” concluding with observations...