The efforts of the Aubrey correspondence group to revise John Wilkins’ Essay (1668) and their context

Historiographia Linguistica

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 331-364

  Lewis, Rhodri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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