Title: Leibniz Discovers Asia
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"--
Subjects: Philosophy, Leibniz, gottfried wilhelm, freiherr von, 1646-1716, Historical linguistics, Comparative linguistics, Knowledge, Linguistics, Correspondence, Methodology, Letters, Republic of Letters (Society), 17.15 historical linguistics, 30.01 history of the exact sciences