商品簡介
Helmont (1614-98) was a Flemish doctor, alchemist, and student of the Jewish Kabbalah. His first book, A Short Sketch of the Truly Natural Hebrew Alphabet argues that Hebrew was the original language, and that Hebrew words exactly mirror things. It uses this revelation to describe how people born deaf can be made not only to understand speech but to speak themselves. Coudert (religious studies, U. London) and Corse (English literature, Arizona State U.) present the 1667 Latin edition with English translation on facing pages, along with the original illustrations. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Allison P. Coudert, Ph.D. in History, Warburg Institute, University of London, is currently the Castelfranco Chair in Religious Studies at the University of California at Davis. She has published extensively on religion, magic, and science in early modern Europe.Taylor Corse, Ph.D. at the University of Florida, is Associate Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University. Corse has published widely on John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Anne Conway, and other writers of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
