Ｆ.Ｍ.ファン・ヘルモントによる言語学書『自然のアルファベット』 The Alphabet of Nature : By F.M. Van Helmont (Aries Book Series)

Coudert, Allison P. (TRN)/ Corse, Taylor (INT)

Brill Academic Pub（2007/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 213 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004152304
• DDC分類 492.401

基本説明

F. M. van Helmont's Alphabet of Nature was one of many books published about language in the early modern period. The "language bebate," as it has come to be called, was a topic of compelling interest to major figures such as Reuchlin, Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Postel, Boehme, Kircher, Hobbes, Descartes, Comenius, Spinoza, Locke, Boyle, Newton, and Leibniz.

Full Description

F. M van Helmont's Alphabet of Nature was one of many books published about language in the early modern period. The "language debate," as it has come to be called, was a topic of compelling interest to major figures such as Reuchlin, Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Postel, Boehme, Kircher, Hobbes, Descartes, Comenius, Spinoza, Locke, Boyle, Newton, and Leibniz. At issue were profound questions about whether language is natural or artificial, ordained by God or created by man. The answers given entailed a web of consequences that could lead to arrest, imprisonment, even execution. It is therefore not surprising that van Helmont wrote his book while imprisoned in the dungeons of the Roman Inquisition.