Teaching language to a boy born deaf : the Popham notebook and associated texts / John Wallis ; edit...
Teaching language to a boy born deaf : the Popham notebook and associated texts / John Wallis ; edit...
Teaching language to a boy born deaf : the Popham notebook and associated texts / John Wallis ; edited and introduced by David Cram and Jaap Maat.
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Oxford, United Kingdom : Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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G 2018/1760
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom : Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
This book presents an edition of a previously unpublished notebook used by the seventeenth-century polymath John Wallis to teach language to the "deaf mute" Alexander Popham. Under the terms of the law Popham would not have been able to inherit his family title and property if he had remained unable to speak. This is one of the most famous cases in...
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Teaching language to a boy born deaf : the Popham notebook and associated texts / John Wallis ; edited and introduced by David Cram and Jaap Maat.
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©2017
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G 2018/1760
Record Identifier
74VKVNkE05NZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVNkE05NZ
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ISBN
0199677085
9780199677085
DDC
940.2
MMS ID
991024162078002626
