Harlan and the Baron are not kind to Juan Pablo Bonet (1573-1633) a Spanish priest who wrote what is believed to be the first book on...

Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (1614 – 1698) traveled with Bohemian gypsies in search of the universal language of man, who the Deaf...

George Dalgarno (1616-1687) is their next victim. Seems he was from a long line of linguists that contemplated languages and were...