The riddle of the Rosetta : how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs /
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Author / Creator: | Buchwald, Jed, 1949- author. |
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Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020] |
Description: | xi, 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12416633 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part 1. A Quaker's Odyssey
- Chapter 1. Dinner at Longman's
- Chapter 2. In the Classroom of Nature
- Chapter 3. An Errand in the City
- Chapter 4. The Vocal Circle
- Chapter 5. Lecturer and Physician
- Chapter 6. The Herculaneum Papyri
- Part 2. Antiquity Embraced
- Chapter 7. Words from Egypt's Past?
- Chapter 8. The Sounds of an Ancient Language
- Chapter 9. Paris Atmospheres
- Chapter 10. Rooted in Place
- Chapter 11. Hier pour Demain
- Chapter 12. L'Affaire Polycarpe
- Chapter 13. An Egyptian Geography of Egypt
- Chapter 14. Indications
- Part 3. Scripts and Bones
- Chapter 15. Summer at Worthing
- Chapter 16. Letters from Paris
- Chapter 17. The Papyri of the Description de I'Égypte
- Chapter 18. Seeking Uxellodunum
- Chapter 19. The Master of Conditions
- Chapter 20. Abandoning the Alphabet at Grenoble
- Chapter 21. Demonstrations
- Chapter 22. Iconoclasm at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Part 4. Reading the Past
- Chapter 23. The Obelisk from Philae
- Chapter 24. A Singular and Puzzling Artifact
- Chapter 25. A Momentous Change
- Chapter 26. Words and Sounds
- Chapter 27. Parisian Reactions
- Chapter 28. Words across the Channel
- Part 5. Antique Letters
- Chapter 29. Grey's Box
- Chapter 30. An Opportune Encounter
- Chapter 31. The "True Key" to Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Chapter 32. The Semantic Trap Avoided
- Chapter 33. The Reception of the Précis
- Chapter 34. "Hold your laughter, friends!"
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index