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I've always wondered if Image magick was named after Aleister Crowley's book. The spelling of magick is the same.

It’s always come across as nothing more than a “ye olde” spelling to me.

I think he came up with the spelling.

It's the old spelling, e.g. Johnson's dictionary (1755) only has the -ck spelling and quotes Shakespeare and Milton spelling it so.

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=m...

TIL, that's good to know. Thanks.

To me it seems as a rather obvious playful creation that anyone can conjure, and I’d rather attribute it to convergent evolution. Much like calculus by Newton and Leibniz.

TIL where the name of that Red Hot Chili Peppers album came from.

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