Language, Writing, and Hieroglyphics [2/2]
Anon
Genre: | Serial, Essay |
Subjects: | Nomenclature, Mathematics, Astronomy, Chemistry |
Relates that some hieroglyphs represent ideas rather than sounds. Observes: 'To this day the same sort of universal characters [...] are used in algebraic propositions, in astronomy, and medicine, which every one may read in his own tongue, and all understand aright' (49). |
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