The History of the Alphabet: Semitic alphabets
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Alphabet
ISBN :
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Alphabet
ISBN :
Author : John F. Healey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520073098
00 In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages. In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages.
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 1899
Category :
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Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2014-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781497920835
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Alphabet
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Naveh
Publisher : Brill
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Alphabetic writing is one of the principal features of Western culture. Our knowledge of the early history, development and spread of the alphabet is constantly changing. This introduction to West Semitic epigraphy and paleography is the author's personal way of introducing this field of study on the basis of the evidence available to date.
Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0226815811
"Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--
Author : Charles V. Kraitsir
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Alphabet
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Author : John Caldwell Calhoun Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Alphabet
ISBN :
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Alphabet
ISBN :