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Wilkins, John

John Wilkins, 1614-1672. Early modern philosopher and scientist. He is the first person known to have made a systematic proposal for a wholly artificial language, for the needs of philosophers.

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• - Concise, accessible introduction to the thinker.
  
• - Complete online text and images of this work by Wilkins, the first linguistic engineering text ever written.
  
• - Article from this openly-edited encyclopedia.
  
• - Concise information on this first president of the Royal Society.
  
• - Article by Jorge Luis Borges on this unusual English thinker.
  
• - Biography of this 17th-century scholar, from the perspective of the college where his career began.
  
• - Illustration from his The Discovery of a World on the Moone.
  
  

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