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Leibniz Discovers Asia : Social Networking in the Republic of Letters /
"This is a work of literary history in which the author reconstructs the epistolary network of a German philologist and philosopher named Gottfried Leibniz and his extended coterie of far-flung correspondents who exchanged information and insights, by way of letters, about the emergent study of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Grimaldi at the gates of Muscovy (Fall 1689)
- Making the worst of a bad assignment: Origines Guelficae and the linguistic project (Autumn 1690-July 1692)
- Building the network (April 1691-June 1692)
- The Jesuit search for an overland route across Grand Tartary to China (1685-1689)
- Seeking the languages of Grand Tartary (August 1693-December 1694)
- Assembling Novissima Sinica (February-September 1695)
- Johann Gabriel Sparwenfeld and Gothic origins (November 1695-December 1697)
- The Grand Embassy of Peter the Great (Summer-Fall 1697)
- The Jesuits of Paris and China (1689, November 1697-March 1698)
- The foundations of modern historical linguistics (1697
- 1716).