Practices of Intellectual Labor in the Republic of Letters: Leibniz and Edward Bernard on Language and European Origins

For a project on the origins and migrations of the European nations, Leibniz wanted to see a comparative lexicon purporting to derive the Germanic languages from Asiatic sources. Friends in nearby Gotha were known to have the book; its author had corresponded with Leibniz a few years earlier. But ac...

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Literary devices
Migration
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Vocabulary
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