The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts Ferrara Silvia
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts Ferrara Silvia In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance--published all around the world--a…
Specifikacia The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts Ferrara Silvia
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts Ferrara Silvia
In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance--published all around the world--a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrest--all around us is an alphabet in things. In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how--and how many times--human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond.With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence?
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