The History Room
I love old maps, this one is really neat. This link is not in English, you will have to copy the URL and put it into a translator. I will provide the link for a translator.
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Excerpt:
The eighteenth century marked a point of no return for human knowledge, especially the western one. Various disciplines began their long modern journey, at the mercy of the Enlightenment and the rich circuit of ideas that made up the Europe of the time. One of them, like so many others, was linguistics, whose journey delved into Antiquity and the Middle Ages, but which enjoyed revitalized attention.
Naturally, the children of the Enlightenment interpreted the world around them from the same prejudices as their future apprentices. In the case of languages, for example, special attention was paid to comparative linguistics, largely from a position of superiority or starting from mythological assumptions, such as a common family tree (the Adamic language , lost after the Tower of Babel ).
This was the case of Gottfried Hensel , a German linguist whose greatest academic legacy was a precious map (1741) of the different languages that inhabited the continents. Hensel presented the known languages together with small excerpts from the Our Father , each one in its writing system and following the most native typography of each region (something especially visible in the Germanic languages and its immortal Gothic).
Hensel's work is not particularly valuable because of its precise content, but because of its originality: until then, no linguist had set out to synthesize in a single work all the languages of the planet, much less with their respective alphabets and systems. The map, whose aesthetics is typically eighteen , represents a journey through the unknown. The languages of Africa barely appear, beyond Arabic or Amharic, and their drawing identifies ethnic groups rather.
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