George Dalgarno Universal Language (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. used hardcover copy, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). light shelfwear, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

1. Auflage. XI, 456 S., Falttafel. Orig.-Pappband mit Orig.-Umschlag. - Sehr guter Zustand innen und außen.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 207 pp. Blue cloth. Near Fine. Slight shelfwear to spine ends. Bookplate of historian Clare Vincent to front paste down endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Fine; slight rubbing to extremities; slight spotting to page edges, but only as seen with the book closed; else As New. No dust jacket. Second Edition. Book.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. George Dalgarno (c.1616-1687) was a Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems. Originally from Aberdeen, he later worked as a schoolteacher in Oxford in collaboration with John Wilkins, although the two parted company intellectually in 1659. Dalgarno matriculated at Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1631. Subsequently he was a schoolteacher in Oxford in the 1650s. In 1657 he was encouraged to upgrade a system of shorthand on which he was working, by Samuel Hartlib, to a more ambitious universal system; and he published on the subject later the same year. This effort brought him into contact with members of the Oxford Philosophical Club, one of the precursors of the Royal Society.…