The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language
Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Periodical Title: Publication Type: Authors:Wilkins, John Editors: Publisher:Printed for Sa. Gellibrand and for John Martyn Place of Publication: Publication Date:1668 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume: Issue: Start Page: End Page: Abstract: Descriptors/Keywords: ISBN: URL:Documents in Print Item: No Documents Listed in Print Item Attached People: Printer or Publisher - Martyn, John (1617/18-1680)
Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Wilkins, John (1614-1672)
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Annotation:In establishing the foundation for his philosophical language, Wilkins writes about "those Tables that concern the species of Natural bodies; which, if they were (so far as they are yet known and discovered) distinctly reduced and described, This would very much promote and facilitate the knowledg of Nature, which is one great end of your Institution. And besides, the ranging of these things into such an order as the Society shall approve, would afford a very good method for your Repository, both for the disposal of what you have already, and the supplying of what you want, towards the compleating of that Collection, so generously begun of late, by the bounty of Mr. Daniel Collwal, a worthy Member of this Society. And by this means, I should not doubt, but that in a very short space, you would have the most usefull Repository in the World" (sig. [a1v].