Authority Cited: Wilkins
Author name and dates: John Wilkins (1614-1672)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; polymath; married Cromwell sister; reduced academic tensions; popular presentation of practical, speculative science
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
Author name and dates: John Wilkins (1614-1672)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; polymath; married Cromwell sister; reduced academic tensions; popular presentation of practical, speculative science
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- Daedalus
- Mathematical Magic: JOHN WILKINS. Mathematical Magick; or the Wonders That May Be Performed by Mechanical Geometry. 4th ed. London, 1691.1st ed.
1648. (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 159) - ?Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668); SJ quotes this work in the Dictionary Grammar of the English Tongue (see Yale Vol. 18, p.300) but this work may not be quoted in the word list.