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It is really amusing to see the reverence with which an old gypsy will look at the awful hieroglyphics in Cornelius Agrippa's "Occult Philosophy," or, better still, "Trithemius," and, as a gift, any ordinary fortune-telling book is esteemed by them beyond rubies.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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An early mention of “Faust” turns up in a letter sent from one Trithemius, abbot of Würzberg and noted occultist, to Johann Virdun, an astrologer in Heidelberg.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Thus Trithemius hated printed books, then a novelty, yet used the printing press lavishly for his own purposes: He comes through not as a hypocrite but as a contradiction in a cassock.
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An unusual but obscure poem kicks things off and I don't heed that too much, then a rather surreal prologue, bit of a drowning episode and onto the first section titled House of A Million Doors with a quote from Johannes Trithemius, Steganographia 1499.
Season of the Witch 2007
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Thus Trithemius hated printed books, then a novelty, yet used the printing press lavishly for his own purposes: He comes through not as a hypocrite but as a contradiction in a cassock.
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Trithemius 1462-1516 is credited w/ the 1st footnotes, and with conjuring angels.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Death of a census worker: a political Gothic tale is born 2009
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When Trithemius became Abbot at Sponheim in 1482 there were 40 works present in the library; by 1505 he had expanded the library to 2000 volumes.
The Flow of Information, or: Culture, Shmulture Heather McDougal 2007
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An unusual but obscure poem kicks things off and I don't heed that too much, then a rather surreal prologue, bit of a drowning episode and onto the first section titled House of A Million Doors with a quote from Johannes Trithemius, Steganographia 1499.
Season of the Witch 2007
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When Trithemius became Abbot at Sponheim in 1482 there were 40 works present in the library; by 1505 he had expanded the library to 2000 volumes.
Archive 2007-10-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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An unusual but obscure poem kicks things off and I don't heed that too much, then a rather surreal prologue, bit of a drowning episode and onto the first section titled House of A Million Doors with a quote from Johannes Trithemius, Steganographia 1499.
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