John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Editor's Introduction; 3. I. John Wilkins (1614-1672): Life and Work; 4. John Wilkins (by Aarsleff, Hans); 5. II. Wilkins and the 17th-century Reconciliation of Science, Religion, and Language; 6. John Wilkins' Essay Toward a Real Character: Its place in the seventeenth century episteme (by Clauss, Sidonie); 7. Dr. Wilkins and the Royal Society (by Stimson, Dorothy); 8. The Ross-Wilkins Controversy (by McColley, Grant); 9. John Wilkins and the Royal Society's Reform of Prose Style (by Christensen, Francis); 10. III. The Sources of Wilkins' Philosophical Language; 11. Comenius and the Real Character in England (by DeMott, Benjamin); 12. The Sources and Development of John Wilkins' Philosophical Language (by DeMott, Benjamin); 13. On the Sources of John Wilkins' Philosophical Language (by Funke, Otto); 14. Language Universals and 17th-Century Universal Schemes (by Cram, David); 15. IV. Theory and Practice in Wilkins' Philosophical Language; 16. 'Philosophical' Grammar in Wilkins' Essay (by Salmon, Vivian); 17. On the Project of a Universal Character (by Cohen, Jonathan); 18. The Real Character of Bishop Wilkins (by Andrade, Edward Neville da Costa); 19. Wilkin's Natural Grammar: The verb phrase (by Frank, Thomas); 20. V. Wilkins' Classification of Reality; 21. John Wilkins and Noah's Ark (by Emery, Clark); 22. John Wilkins' Linguistic Views (by Linsky, Sergey Semenovich); 23. John Wilkins' Theory of Meaning and the Development of a Semantic Model (by Subbiondo, Joseph L.); 24. John Wilkins' and William Lloyd's Alphabetical Dictionary (1668): Towards a comprehensive, and systematically defined, lexicon (by Dolezal, Fredric); 25. The Significance of John Wilkins in the History of Bibliographical Classification (by Vickery, B.C.); 26. VI. Wilkins' Legacy; 27. John Wilkins' Essay (1668): Critics and continuators (by Salmon, Vivian); 28. Select Biography; 29. A. Writings by John Wilkins; 30. B. Secondary Sources; 31. Index of Biographical Names