Universal language schemes in England and France 1600-1800 /

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For 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-rangi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knowlson, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Heritage
Temas:
Language, Universal > History.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A language of real characters: the intellectual background
  • 2. Early schemes for a common writing
  • 3. The philosophical language
  • 4. Ideal languages in the imaginary voyage
  • 5. The eighteenth century: origins of language, general grammar, and a universal language
  • 6. Pasigraphy in the 1970s
  • 7. Signs and thought
  • 8. The Idéologues and the perfect language
  • Appendix A. Gesture as a form of universal language
  • Appendix B. Checklist of schemes of universal writing and language in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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