An interesting book.

I found a curious book online: "Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic
Characters Explained". Translated in 1806 from a work purported to
be about a 1000 years older. As far as I can tell, it has nothing
to do with hieroglyphics as we know them, but rather is about
alchemical or philosophical symbols. There are loads of curious
alphabets (all duly translated into Arabic) all collated into
types (national alphabets, alphabets invented by (conlanging)
philosophers, various astrological alphabets). The book itself is
interesting in that the original Arabic text is given after the
English translation; and a table of Arabic to English letters is
given for those of us who don't know Arabic. The mystical and
philosophical stuff aside, I think it might be worth a look for
the alphabet wrights amongst us.

Be warned, though: this is a scan of the original book wherein
one scan = one page. You have to click each page you want to look
at individually. This will be torture for folks with slow modems.
:(

             /
 \ | /   \ |//  \ | /   \ | /  \ | /
 \\|//   \\|//   \|/    \\|//   \|//
  \|//   \\|//  \ | /    \|//    |//
   |/     \|//   \|/      |//    |//
   |       |//  \ | /     |//    |//
   |       |/    \|/      |/     |/
   |       |      |       |      |

Padraic.

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