Review published In:
Historiographia LinguisticaVol. 46:1/2 (2019) ► pp.191–205
Book review
John Wilkins (1614–1672): New Essays. Edited by William Poole
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Article outline
- 1.Mordechai Feingold, “The Young Wilkins and the debate over copernicanism”
- 2.C. S. L. Davies, “Wilkins at Wadham”
- 3.Richard Serjeantson, “Wilkins in Cambridge”
- 4.Jon Parkin, “Wilkins and Latitudinarianism”
- 5.Felicity Henderson, “Taking the Moon Seriously: John Wilkins’s Discovery of a in the Moon (1638) and Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet (1640)”
- 6.Natalie Kaoukji, “Mathematical Magick (1648), and the mechanics of discovery”
- 7.Rhodri Lewis, “The same principle of reason: John Wilkins and language”
- 8.Scott Mandelbrote, “John Wilkins and the gardens of Wadham College”
- 9.Anna Marie Roos, “Chymical teaching in early Oxford: From Wilkins to Whiteside”
- 10.William Poole, “Wadham College Library: The first century”
- 11.Conclusion
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