The alphabet of nature [[electronic resource] /] / by F.M. van Helmont ; translated with an introduction and annotations by Allison P. Coudert & Taylor Corse
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| Autore: |
Helmont Franciscus Mercurius van <1614-1699.>
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| Titolo: |
The alphabet of nature [[electronic resource] /] / by F.M. van Helmont ; translated with an introduction and annotations by Allison P. Coudert & Taylor Corse
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 492.4/01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hebrew language - Alphabet - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| Hebrew language - Alphabet - Religious aspects - Judaism | |
| Cabala and Christianity | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
CoudertAllison <1941->
CorseTaylor <1951->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-208) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material / A.P. Coudert and T. Corse -- Alphabeti Vere Naturalis Hebraici — A Short Sketch Of The Truly Natural Hebrew Alphabet / A.P. Coudert and T. Corse -- Images / A.P. Coudert and T. Corse -- Bibliography / A.P. Coudert and T. Corse. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The alphabet of nature |
| ISBN: | 1-282-39681-1 |
| 9786612396816 | |
| 90-474-1998-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453550803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Aries book series ; ; v. 3.