Glyphbreaker - Couverture rigide

Fischer, Steven R.

 
9780387982410: Glyphbreaker
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0387982418 ISBN 13 : 9780387982410
Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1997

Synopsis

After successfully deciphering the Rongorongo script of Easter Island, Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers: he is the only person to have deciphered not one but two ancient scripts. Both of these scripts yield clues of great historical importance. Fischers previous decipherment, of a Cretan artefact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean Greek. Fischer's decipherment of Rongorongo shows that it was not merely a mnemonic device for recalling memorised texts, but was actually read and used for creative composition. This is the exciting story of these two decipherments, by the man who now must rank as the greatest glyphbreaker of all time.

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Éditeur
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0387982418
ISBN 13 
9780387982410
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
234
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Personne responsable
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