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The Alphabet of Nature: By F.M. Van Helmont

By Allison P. Coudert , Taylor Corse

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2007
ISBN
9789004152304, 900415230X
LCC
PJ4589 .H45 2007
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3350671 bytes)
Series
Aries Book Series 3
Pages
264\264
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

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.

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