Museum of Languages. Conrad Gessner and the Polyglot Books of the 16th Century
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Mikhail Sergeev's book is devoted to the ideas about the diversity and classification of languages in the early modern period in their connection with the development of the humanities and natural sciences. The focus is on a new genre of scholarly literature that emerged in the 16th century and made it possible to cover the rapidly expanding volume of knowledge about the languages of the world, namely polyglot books, that is, books that "speak many languages."
The author studies the history of the publication and the structure of the most famous and influential polyglot - the alphabetical reference book "Mithridates. On the Differences of Languages (1555) by K. Gessner, actively uses materials from other sources (the works of G. Postel, T. Ambrogio degli Albonesi, T. Bibliander, A. Rocchi, K. Duret, K. Waser), addresses the most important issues related to the development of sciences in the early modern period - the relationship between "old" and "new" knowledge in the work of humanists, the mechanisms of communication and exchange that operated in the Republic of Scientists, strategies for overcoming "information overload" in the era of printed books. The book contains the first detailed essay in Russian on the biography and scientific activities of the author of "Mithridates" - the Zurich polymath Conrad Gessner.
Mikhail Sergeev is a philologist, researcher of the intellectual history of the early modern period, senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of History, History and Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian National Library.
The author studies the history of the publication and the structure of the most famous and influential polyglot - the alphabetical reference book "Mithridates. On the Differences of Languages (1555) by K. Gessner, actively uses materials from other sources (the works of G. Postel, T. Ambrogio degli Albonesi, T. Bibliander, A. Rocchi, K. Duret, K. Waser), addresses the most important issues related to the development of sciences in the early modern period - the relationship between "old" and "new" knowledge in the work of humanists, the mechanisms of communication and exchange that operated in the Republic of Scientists, strategies for overcoming "information overload" in the era of printed books. The book contains the first detailed essay in Russian on the biography and scientific activities of the author of "Mithridates" - the Zurich polymath Conrad Gessner.
Mikhail Sergeev is a philologist, researcher of the intellectual history of the early modern period, senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of History, History and Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian National Library.
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