A philosophicall essay for the reunion of the languages : or, The art of knowing all by the mastery of one

Name: A philosophicall essay for the reunion of the languages : or, The art of knowing all by the mastery of one
Author: Pierre Besnier

by Pierre Besnier

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by David Starner, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Release date

2005-04-18

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Language and languages -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

About the author

Pierre Besnier

1648–1705

A 17th-century French Jesuit remembered for his curiosity about language, he wrote an ambitious essay that imagined a way to bring languages closer together. His work sits at the crossroads of philosophy, linguistics, and the early search for universal understanding.

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