La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea
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Bishop John Wilkins’s An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668), has enjoyed a revival of interest in recent years, thanks on one hand to the researches of Umberto Eco, who discusses the Essay at length in his book In Search of the Perfect Language, and on the other to the endeavours of Neal Stephenson, in whose Baroque Cycle of novels, Wilkins features as a character. The second part of the Essay is an ‘enumeration and description of all those things and notions to which names are to be assigned:’ that is, an attempt to provide a structured classification for every possible noun.
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