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050 4 _aZ103.5 -- .W54 1984eb
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100 1 _aWilkins, John.
245 1 0 _aMercury :
_bThe Secret and Swift Messenger: Showing How a Man with Privacy and Speed May Communicate His Thoughts to a Friend at Any Distance (1707).
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAmsterdam :
_bJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,
_c1984.
264 4 _c©1984.
300 _a1 online resource (234 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aFoundations of Semiotics ;
_vv.6
505 0 _aMERCURY: OR THE SECRET AND SWIFT MESSENGER ESSAY TOWARDS A REAL CHARACTER AND A PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- 0. Introduction -- 1. General Characterization: Sources and Aims -- 2. Early Continental Developments -- 3. Language Invention in England -- 3.1 The Beginnings -- 3.2 Universal Character -- 3.3 Universal Language -- 3.4 The Turn of the Century -- 3.5 The 18th Century -- 4. Universal Languages in France -- 4.1 The 17th Century -- 4.2 The 18th Century -- 5. Universal Languages in Germany -- 5.1 Comenius and the Academy at Herborn -- 5.2 J. J. Becher and A. Kircher -- 5.3 G. W. Leibniz -- 5.4 Logically Orientated Movements in 18th Century Germany -- 5.5 Pasigraphic Proposals -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6. Notes -- 7. Bibliography -- 7.1 List of Source Works -- 7.2 List of Secondary Works -- 7.3 The Works of John Wilkins -- THE LIFE of the AUTHOR: AND AN Account of his WRITINGS. -- To MERCURY the Elder: On the most Learned Mercury the Younger -- MERCURY: THE Secret and Swift Messenger. -- CHAP. I.The Dependance of this Knowledge in Nature. The Authors that have treated of it. Its Re-lation to the Art of Grammar. -- CHAP. II. The Conditions requisite to Secresy: The use of it in the Matter of Speech, either -- CHAP. III. Concerning that Secresy of Speech, which consists in the Words, Either -- CHAP. IV. Concerning the Secret Conveyances of any written Message in Use amongst ihe Ancients. -- CHAP V. Of that Secresy which consists in the Materials of Writing whether the Paper or Ink. -- CHAP. VI. Secret Writing with the common Letters, by changing of their Places. -- CHAP. VII. Concerning Secret Writing with equal Letters, by changing their Powers. The Ufe of this amongst the Jews and Romans. The Key-Cha-racter.
505 8 _aCHAP. VIII. Of Secret Writing by more Letters than are requisite to the intended meaning. -- CHAP. IX. Of concealing any written Senfe under Barbarous Words, and such as shall not seem to be of any Signification. How all the Letters may he expressed by any Five, Three, or Two of them. Of Writing with a double Alphabet. How from thefe two laß Ways together, there may be contrived the beft kind of Secret Writing. -- CHAP. X. Of Writing any Secret Senfe by fewer Letters than are required to the Words of it. The Ufe of this amongst the Jews and Romans. -- CHAP. XI. Of Writing by invented Characters. The Distinction of these into such as signifie, either Letters, Words or Nations. The General Rules of unfolding and olscuring any Letter-characters. How to exprefs any Sense, either by Points, or Lines, or Figures. -- CHAP. XII. Of Characters that exprefs Words. The first Invention of thefe. Of thofe that signify things and Notions, as Hieroglyphicks, Emblems. -- CHAP. XIII. Concerning an Universal Character, that may be legible to all Nations and Languages. The Benefit and Possibility of this. -- CHAP. XIV. Concerning the third Way of Secret Discoursing by Signs and Gestures, which may signifie , either excongruo explacito. -- CHAP. XV. Concerning the Swiftness of Informations, either by Qualities, as the Impression of Imagination, and the Sensitive Spories -- or by Spiritual Sub-stances, as Angels. -- CHAP. XVI. Concerning the Swiftness of Conveyance by Bodies, whether Inanimate, as Arrows, Bullets -- or Animate, as Men, Beasts, Birds. -- CHAP. XVII. Of Secret and Swift Informations by the Species of Sound. -- CHAP. XVIII. Concerning a Language that may consist only of Tunes and Musical Notes, without any articulate Sound. -- CHAP. XIX. Of those common Relations that concern Secret and Swift Informations by the Species of Sight.
505 8 _awhich are either Fabulous, or Magical. -- CHAP. XX. Of Informations by significatory Fires and Smoaks. Their Antiquity. The true manner of using them to this purpose. That these were meant in Nuntius inanimatus. -- CONCLUSION. -- AN ABSTRACT OF Dr. WILKINS's ESSAY Towards a Real Character, AND A Philosophical Language.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aCryptography -- Early works to 1800.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages.
650 0 _aPhilosophy -- Miscellanea.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aAsbach-Schnitker, Brigitte.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aWilkins, John
_tMercury
_dAmsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c1984
_z9789027232762
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aFoundations of Semiotics
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