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024 7 _a10.3138/9781487589400
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781487589400
035 _a(DE-B1597)513821
035 _a(OCoLC)1091661450
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aPHI002000
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082 0 4 _a499/.99
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKnowlson, James
_eautore
245 1 0 _aUniversal language schemes in England and France 1600-1800 /
_cJames Knowlson.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1975]
264 4 _c©1975
300 _a1 online resource (316 p.) :
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336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aHeritage
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFor centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe. Yet as early as the first half of the seventeenth century, scholars, philosophers, and scientists were beginning to turn their attention to the possibility of formulating a totally new universal language. This wide-ranging book focuses upon the role that it was thought an ideal, universal, constructed language would play in the advancement of learning. The first section examines seventeenth-century attempts to establish a universal 'common writing' or, as Bishop Wilkins called it, a 'real character and philosophical language.' This movement involved or interested scientists and philosophers as distinguished as Descartes, Mersenne, Comenius, Newton, Hooke, and Leibniz. The second part of the book follows the same theme through to the final years of the eighteenth century, where the implications of language-building for the progress of knowledge are presented as part of the wider question which so interested French philosophers, that of the influence of signs on thought. The author also includes a chapter tracing the frequent appearance of ideal languages in French and English imaginary voyages, and an appendix on the idea that gestural signs might supply a universal language. This work is intended as a contribution to the history of ideas rather than of linguistics proper, and because it straddles several disciplines, will interest a wide variety of reader. It treats comprehensively a subject that has not previously been adequately dealt with, and should become the standard work in its field.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487589400
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