Leibniz Discovers Asia
Subtitle: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 14, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781421427539
Description: "This is a work of literary history in which the author reconstructs the epistolary network of a German philologist and philosopher named Gottfried Leibniz and his extended coterie of far-flung correspondents who exchanged information and insights, by way of letters, about the emergent study of historical linguistics, as a means of retracing the origins of the various peoples of Europe. This book contributes to our understanding of the so-called international Republic of Letters in the early-modern period of Europe and the near East"--
Notes: Source title: Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters (Information Cultures)