Re: An interesting book.

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:01:37 -0400 Padraic Brown
<pbrown@...> writes:
> 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.
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The alphabets look cool, although the reproduction of Hebrew is not very
good, neither the Hebrew letters themselves nor the Arabic
transliterations.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "in a place with no leaders - try and be one."
     ~ Hileil

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