Everything Has Its Place: The Unusual History of Alphabetical Order
The book by historian Judith Flanders is dedicated to how the alphabet has organized the world around us: combining features of academic research and captivating storytelling, it tells about the ways we organize our perceptions of the surrounding reality using...
various symbolic systems, related in one way or another to the alphabet. The reader is set to embark on a true journey from the origins of human civilization to the 21st century to discover how, thanks to people like Samuel Pepys or Denis Diderot, the skills to capture information and systematize accumulated knowledge were formed through the order in which the letters of human writing are arranged.
The book by historian Judith Flanders is dedicated to how the alphabet has organized the world around us: combining features of academic research and captivating storytelling, it tells about the ways we organize our perceptions of the surrounding reality using various symbolic systems, related in one way or another to the alphabet. The reader is set to embark on a true journey from the origins of human civilization to the 21st century to discover how, thanks to people like Samuel Pepys or Denis Diderot, the skills to capture information and systematize accumulated knowledge were formed through the order in which the letters of human writing are arranged.
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