About “Synopsis universae philologiae: in qua: miranda unitas et harmonia linguarum totius orbis terrarum occulta, e literarum, syllabarum, vocumque natura & recessibus eruitur. Cum Grammatica, LL. Orient. Harmonica, Synoptice tractata; nec non descriptione Orbis Terr. quoad Linguarum situm & propagationem, mappisque geographico-polyglottis”
Synopsis Universae Philologiae is an early work on comparative linguistics by Gottfried Hensel, a rector in Hirschberg, Lower Silesia. The full title translates to "Synopsis of Universal Linguistics: in which the remarkable unity and harmony of all the languages of the world are revealed, from the nature and secrets of letters, syllables, and words." The work includes a grammar, a harmonic treatment of Oriental languages, and a description of the world's linguistic distribution. It was published in 1741 in Nuremberg by the Homann heirs company. A second edition was released in 1754. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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