Re: (1) I'm Back!!! (2) Thank You All!! (3) I Need Your Help!
| From: | Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 13, 2003, 0:31 |
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Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>Well, last week I bought an interesting book about the early history of
>conlanging:
>M.M. Slaughter, "Universal language and scientific taxonomy in the
seventeenth
>century" (Cambridge, 1982). I haven't even started to read it yet, but
it looks
>like it is full of information about Bacon, Comenius, Wilkins,
Dalgarno,
>Newton, and others.
>Does somebody know this book?
No, and its out of print. Does it have a timeline? I'm trying to flesh
out a chronology of conlanging:
http://www.langmaker.com/db/mdl_index_year.htm#1100
http://www.langmaker.com/db/mdl_stats_index.htm#ByDecade
If you could write down any dates and their associated languages as you
read it, and let me know them, I'd be most appreciative.
Best regards,
Jeffrey
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