books.google.co.uk - In the seventeenth century, a series of proposals and schemes for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communication gained currency. Fully developed, these schemes consisted of a classification of all known 'things' and a set of self-defining names designed...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Universal_Languages_and_Scientific_Taxon.html?id=Mn6Aejr8ZLkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareUniversal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century. [Mit Fig.] (1. Publ.)
