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  • History Of Writing

    Signatur: B:1 F017

    ISBN: 9781861891013

    Seiten: 352

    Von: Steven Roger Fischer

    Verlag: Reaktion Books

    Jahr: 2004

    Inhalt: From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world.Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. He documents the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West. Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese writing systems are dealt with in depth, as is writing in pre-Columbian America. Also explored are Western Europe's medieval manuscripts and the history of printing, leading to the innovations in technology and spelling rules of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    Sammlung: Rutherford Collection





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