Book review
Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke By Rhodri Lewis ( Ideas in Context, 80).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 262 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87475-5 £ 50 $ 90

Reviewed by Joseph L. Subbiondo
California Institute of Integral Studies
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