Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2019
DOI
10.1353/jhi.2019.0023
Publication Title
Journal of the History of Ideas
Volume
80
Issue
3
Pages
365-386
Abstract
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 actually getting the book was more difficult than one might expect. In addition to the actual logistics and manners of scholarly communication in the late seventeenth century, this essay shows what scholars were trying to accomplish by establishing the prehistoric origins of the modern nations.
Original Publication Citation
Carhart, M. C. (2019). Practices of intellectual labor in the Republic of Letters: Leibniz and Edward Bernard on language and European origins. Journal of the History of Ideas, 80(3), 365-386. doi:10.1353/jhi.2019.0023
Repository Citation
Carhart, Michael C., "Practices of Intellectual Labor in the Republic of Letters: Leibniz and Edward Bernard on Language and European Origins" (2019). History Faculty Publications. 43.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_fac_pubs/43
Comments
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