George Dalgarno On Universal Language

Download or read book George Dalgarno on Universal Language written by David Cram and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the published and the previously unpublished works on language by the seventeenth-century thinker George Dalgarno. His 'Art of Signs' - the earliest seventeenth-century work to attempt a fully elaborated universal language scheme - is presented here for the first time with a full English translation alongside the Latin. Also included is a further book-length tract, broadsheets, and correspondence, all of which provide the modern reader with better access to the ideas of this original and stimulating thinker.