Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. [One line in Latin from Horace] With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak. By William Thornton, M.D. member of the Societies of Scots Antiquaries of Edinburgh and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society of Nautical Hist. of Edin: the American Philosophical Society, &c.

All titles

• Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. [One line in Latin from Horace] With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak. By William Thornton, M.D. member of the Societies of Scots Antiquaries of Edinburgh and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society of Nautical Hist. of Edin: the American Philosophical Society, &c.
• Cadmus

People / Organizations

• William Thornton (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, and sold by J. Debrett, bookseller, London, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]

Added name

American Philosophical Society.

Publication year

1793

ESTC No.

W28962

Grub Street ID

339175

Description

vii,[2],10-110p., [1]folded leaf ; 8⁰

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [pi]? [A]-N?. This edition not in Evans