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Leibniz discovers Asia : social networking in the Republic of Letters /

This is a work of literary history in which the author reconstructs the epistolary network of a German philologist and philosopher named Gottfried Leibniz and his extended coterie of far-flung correspondents who exchanged information and insights, by way of letters, about the emergent study of histo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carhart, Michael C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Series:Information cultures
Subjects:
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, > Freiherr von, > 1646-1716 > Knowledge > Linguistics.
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, > Freiherr von, > 1646-1716 > Correspondence.
Republic of Letters (Society)
Historical linguistics.
Comparative linguistics > Methodology.
Table of Contents:
  • Grimaldi at the gates of Muscovy (Fall 1689)
  • Making the worst of a bad assignment: Origines Guelficae and the linguistic project (Autumn 1690-July 1692)
  • Building the network (April 1691-June 1692)
  • The Jesuit search for an overland route across Grand Tartary to China (1685-1689)
  • Seeking the languages of Grand Tartary (August 1693-December 1694)
  • Assembling Novissima Sinica (February-September 1695)
  • Johann Gabriel Sparwenfeld and Gothic origins (November 1695-December 1697)
  • The Grand Embassy of Peter the Great (Summer-Fall 1697)
  • The Jesuits of Paris and China (1689, November 1697-March 1698)
  • The foundations of modern historical linguistics (1697
  • 1716).