This is Neal Stephenson's in some way strange book in which he places the reader amongst many famous natural philosophers at the end of the 17th, beginning of the 18th century, among whome is John Wilkins, who is telling there about his influential book "A Real Character and Philosophical Language" of which book I possess the original first printing from 1667 (see: https://www.librarything.nl/work/437429/book/175088399). Out of Stepheson's book I have copied here six pages where John is telling about his book. See the other 3 photo's.
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Bilden laddades upp av Theunissen Nov 12, 2019.