Charles Alois Ramsay
See also: Ramsay
Charles Alois Ramsay or Charles Aloysius Ramsay (1617-1689) is the author of a method of Sténographie.
Biography
In 1681, Charles Alois Ramsay publishes in Paris Tachéographie or art to write as quickly as the word , in Latin and French, based on the system of Shelton. The first edition in fact was published in Frankfurt in 1678. It devotes its work to the Théologie, the Justice, the doctor, men of letters, student and with all the people who must retranscribe the word quickly. This work is translated into German and is published in Leipzig in 1743.
Ramsay also translated books of German to Latin, such as: Experiments on fixed salts and volatile (1676) and chemical Observations (1677), both writings by Jean Kunckel.
Ramsay alphabet
Its alphabet contains the five Voyelle S, which is omitted in beginning and at the end of the mot. the line of writing is an imaginary pentagram. The words are written by syllables. Its method diverges much from that of Shelton, by adopting for example simple signs for several alphanumerics.
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