《The Alphabet of Nature》是Brill出版的圖書，作者是Allison P. Coudert，Taylor Corse，F.M. van Helmont
基本介紹
- 書名：The Alphabet of Nature
- 作者：Allison P. Coudert、Taylor Corse、F.M. van Helmont
- 出版社：Brill
- 出版時間：2007年3月15日
- 頁數：214 頁
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- ISBN：9789004152304
- 售價：GBP 147.46
內容簡介
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 pr...(展開全部) 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.
