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The Riddle of the Rosetta
How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Buch von Diane Greco Josefowicz (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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"In 1799, a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek, hieroglyphic, and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact, which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone, has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment, which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking, a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta, Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment"--
"In 1799, a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek, hieroglyphic, and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact, which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone, has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment, which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking, a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta, Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment"--
Über den Autor
Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. He lives in Altadena, California. Diane Greco Josefowicz is a writer, editor, and activist. She has served for more than a decade as science and technology editor for the Victorian Web ([...]). She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Buchwald and Josefowicz are the authors of The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (Princeton).
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691200903
ISBN-10: 0691200904
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Josefowicz, Diane Greco
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 239 x 167 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Diane Greco Josefowicz (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
Gewicht: 1,095 kg
Artikel-ID: 121243581
Über den Autor
Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. He lives in Altadena, California. Diane Greco Josefowicz is a writer, editor, and activist. She has served for more than a decade as science and technology editor for the Victorian Web ([...]). She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Buchwald and Josefowicz are the authors of The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (Princeton).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780691200903
ISBN-10: 0691200904
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Josefowicz, Diane Greco
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 239 x 167 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Diane Greco Josefowicz (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
Gewicht: 1,095 kg
Artikel-ID: 121243581
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