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Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 46:1/2 (2019) ► pp.191–205

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Book review

John Wilkins (1614–1672): New Essays. Edited by William Poole

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 | California Institute for Human Science
Published online: 2 September 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00044.sub
Article outline
  • 1.Mordechai Feingold, “The Young Wilkins and the debate over copernicanism”
  • 2.C. S. L. Davies, “Wilkins at Wadham”
  • 3.Richard Serjeantson, “Wilkins in Cambridge”
  • 4.Jon Parkin, “Wilkins and Latitudinarianism”
  • 5.Felicity Henderson, “Taking the Moon Seriously: John Wilkins’s Discovery of a in the Moon (1638) and Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet (1640)”
  • 6.Natalie Kaoukji, “Mathematical Magick (1648), and the mechanics of discovery”
  • 7.Rhodri Lewis, “The same principle of reason: John Wilkins and language”
  • 8.Scott Mandelbrote, “John Wilkins and the gardens of Wadham College”
  • 9.Anna Marie Roos, “Chymical teaching in early Oxford: From Wilkins to Whiteside”
  • 10.William Poole, “Wadham College Library: The first century”
  • 11.Conclusion
  • References
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