George Dalgarno, Ars Signorum (1661)

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Date
1661
Author
Book title
Ars Signorum, Vulgo Character Universalis Et Lingua Philosophica
Publication place
London
Publisher
J. Hayes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
Latin
Summary
Tables of affixes (particles, derivatives), radicals (verbs and adjectives; and nouns) in a Latin treatise with occasional English glosses
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Sic, proportione servata, distingui possunt 5. ætates plantarum: Prima, dum ex semine surgit (in Arboribus vocant Angli kitkey.) (p. 91)
Wing
d128
Facsimiles
Dalgarno, George. Ars Signorum. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 116. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Modern editions
Dalgarno, David. George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The art of signs (1661), The deaf and dumb man's tutor (1680), and the unpublished papers . Eds. David Cram and Jaap Maat. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. view record
Criticisms
  • Salmon, Vivian, "The Evolution of Dalgarno's `Ars Signorum'," in her The Study of Language in 17th-century England (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979): 157-75. Originally in Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966): 353-71.
Cram, David. "George Dalgarno on Ars Signorum and Wilkins' Essay." Progress in Linguistic Historiography. Ed. Konrad Koerner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1980. 113-21. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "The Evolution of Dalgarno's `Ars Signorum'." The Study of Language in 17th-century England. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979. 157-75. view record
Cram, David. "George Dalgarno and John Ray on the Doctrine of the Letters." Orbis 40 (1998): 135-46. view record