Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": John Wilkins: Real Character / Philosophical Language: Grammar: Syntax: Irony

An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language

John Wilkins

Part III: The Third Part Containing Philosophical Grammar

Chapter 9

Of the Second part of Grammar called Syntax

SOURCE: Wilkins, John. An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language. London: Printed for S. Gellibrand [etc.], 1668. [Contents: in PDF file, pp. 22-25] Part III: The Third Part Containing Philosophical Grammar: Chapter 9: Of the Second part of Grammar called Syntax; pp. 354-356 [in PDF pp. 388-390].

Note proposal on punctuation for irony, pp. 355-356 [in PDF pp. 389-390]. Additional bibliography & links supplied by R. Dumain.

Related bibliography

Adorno, Theodor W. “Punctuation Marks,” in Notes to Literature; Volume One, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), pp. 91-97. See also John Wilkins & irony (3): Adorno postscript, and Theodor Adorno on the Art of Punctuation by Maria Popova (Brain Pickings).

Houston, Keith. Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013), pp. 212-214.

Trettien, Whitney Anne. ‘The Sound of the Printed Letter’: Orthography, Orthoepy, Print and Dictionaries in Print Culture. Thesis, Hood College, 2007. See also author’s web site.

‘The Sound of the Printed Letter’: Orthography, Orthoepy, Print and the Naturalization of English Dictionaries. Queen’s University, June 3-5, 2010. Excerpt from full work (above).

Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550-1660; edited by L. E. Semler, Philippa Kelly. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010.

Wright Henderson, P. A. (Patrick Arkley). The Life and Times of John Wilkins, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester. Edinburgh; London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1910.

Other works by John Wilkins

The Discovery of a World in the Moone: Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That ’Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet. Printed by E.G. for Michael Sparke and Edward Forrest, 1638.

The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins, late lord bishop of Chester: to which is prefix’d the author’s life, and an account of his works. 2 vols. London: Vernor and Hood, 1802. Volume 1. Volume 2.

v. 1. I. The discovery of a new world; or, A discourse tending to prove, that it is probable there may be another habitable world in the moon. With a discourse of the possibility of a passage thither. — v. 1. II. That it is probable our earth is one of the planets. — v. 2. I. Mercury: or The secret and swift messenger. Shewing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance. — v. 2. II. Mathematical magic: or, The wonders that may be performed by mechanical geometry. — v. 2. III. An abstract of his essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language

Mercury, or, The secret and swift messenger: Shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance. London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694.