Artist Index: Brerewood, Edward

Brerewood, Edward. Recherches curieuses sur la diversité des langues et religions, par toutes les principales parties du monde. Mises en Français par I. de la Montagne. 11 Bl., 338 S. 18 x 12 cm. Moderner Pergamentband. Paris, Olivier de Varennes, 1640.
Cioranescu 39650. Caillet 1637. Sabin 7733. – Erste französische Ausgabe dieses wichtigen Beitrags zur Sprachtheorie des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. "The author devotes a portion of the work to the first peopling of America, claiming the Tatars as their forefathers" (Sabin). "Brerewood was also probably the first man to apply mathematical analysis to cultural and religious phenomena, and this in conjunction with a similar treatment of the origin and diffusion of languages" (Margaret T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the 16th and 17th centuries). – Vereinzelt Feuchtigkeitsspuren und Sporflecken.