Название: The Story of the Alphabet / История алфавита
Автор: Edward Clodd
Издательство: Appleton & Co (New York)
Год: 1912
Страниц: 208
Формат: pdf (в rar)
Размер: 10 мб
Качество: хорошее (в цвете)
Язык: английский

Writing began as a pictorial record, then the pictures became representations of an idea and writing became symbolic. In the final stages of its evolution, the symbols represented a sound. This evolution is set forth within this volume, with emphasis on the common primitive forms and concepts from which the modern alphabet have been derived.