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100 1 $aDe Looze, Laurence,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe letter and the cosmos :$bhow the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world /$cLaurence de Looze.
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505 0 $a1 Introduction -- 2 Ancient Greek Letters -- 3 Latin Letters and the Enduring Influence of Roman Scripts -- 4 Christian Letters: The Middle Ages -- 5 The Letters of Humanism -- 6 Baroque Variations and the Search for a Universal Language -- 7 Logical Letters: The Alphabet in the Age of Reason -- 8 The Alphabets of the Industrialized World -- 9 From Modern Experiments to Post-Modern Experiences -- 10 Into the New Millennium.
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