Wilkins, John
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An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
http://reliant.teknowledge.com/Wilkins/
Complete online text and images of this work by Wilkins, the first linguistic engineering text ever written.
BBC History: John Wilkins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilkins_john.shtml
Concise, accessible introduction to the thinker.
Bishop John Wilkins
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/wilkins/wilkins.html
Concise information on this first president of the Royal Society.
Hertford College Old Members: Wilkins
http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni/wilkins.htm
Biography of this 17th-century scholar, from the perspective of the college where his career began.
John Wilkins' Universe
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/brunof14.htm
Illustration from his The Discovery of a World on the Moone.
The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html
Article by Jorge Luis Borges on this unusual English thinker.
Wikipedia: John Wilkins
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkins
Article from this openly-edited encyclopedia.