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"

• full text online with scans of the original pages http://reliant.teknowledge.com/Wilkins/
  • also includes links to pieces by Umberto Eco
• essay about it by Jorge Luis Borges
• but was it RDF Meta Data?