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Excerpt from Bacon's Dial in Shakespeare: A Compass-Clock Cipher
This book tries to show that a cipher designed by Francis Bacon, and based on the union of a clock and compass in Dial form, exists in the First Folio of Shakespeare, printed in 1623.
The Dial cipher is used as a literary framework for the plays, and is closely associated with the finest passages and allusions. It does not dis place Baconian evidence already brought for ward by...