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Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematical Notations (The Open Court Publishing Company, 1928–29).
R. J. Craik, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (1611—1660): Adventurer, Polymath, and Translator of Rabelais (Mellen Research University Press, 1993).
David Cram and Jaap Maat, George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), and the Unpublished Papers (Oxford University Press, 2001).
James Knowlson, Universal Language Schemes in England and France,1600–1800 (University of Toronto Press, 1975).
Barbara J. Shapiro, John Wilkins, 1614–1672: An Intellectual Biography(University of California Press, 1969).
Joseph L. Subbiondo, John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics (John Benjamins, 1992).
LUDWIK ZAMENHOF AND THE LANGUAGE OF PEACE
For a very entertaining account of Solresol, see:
Paul Collins, NOTES Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck (Picador USA, 2001).
This book also tells the story of George Psalmanazar, who in the early eighteenth century made up a language to perpetuate a hoax where he pretended to be a native of Formosa, and gave lectures all over Europe about his made-up exotic culture.
On Esperanto, see:
Marjorie Boulton, Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto (Routledge and Paul,1960).
Peter G. Forster, The Esperanto Movement (Mouton, 1982).
Wendy Heller, Lidia: The Life of Lidia Zamenhof, Daughter of Esperanto(George Ronald, 1985).
Pierre Janton, Esperanto Language, Literature, and Community (State University of New York Press, 1993).
Don Harlow maintains a very informative Web book about Esperanto at donh.best.vwh.net/esperanto.php.
On Hebrew, see:
Jack Fellman, The Revival of a Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language (Mouton, 1973).
Shlomo Izre'el, “The Emergence of Spoken Israeli Hebrew,” in Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew: Towards the Compilation of the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH), edited by Benjamin H. Hary (Tel Aviv University, 2003).
CHARLES BLISS AND THE LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS
On the rise of English and an analysis of how a language comes to world prominence, see:
David Crystal, English as a Global Language (Cambridge University Press,1997).
Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World(HarperCollins, 2005).
For information about Elias Molee, see:
Marvin Slind, “Elias Molee and ‘Alteutonic’: A Norwegian-Americans ‘Universal Language,’” Norwegian-American Studies (forthcoming).
Molee's papers are held at the Norwegian-American Historical Association, St. Olaf College.
On the strange, strange life of Edmund Shaftesbury, see:
Janet Six, “Hidden History of Ralston Heights,” Archaeology, May/June 2004.
For some good stories about Ogden, see:
J. R. L. Anderson and P. Sargant Florence, C. K. Ogden: A Collective Memoir (Elek, 1977).
K. E. Garay, “Empires of the Mind? C. K. Ogden, Winston Churchill, and Basic English,” Historical Papers, Communications Historiques (1988), pp. 280–91.
The hieroglyphic example comes from:
Florian Coulmas, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems (Black-well, 1996).
On how Chinese writing really works, see:
John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (University of Hawaii Press, 1984).
For a good introduction to the linguistics of sign languages, see: Edward S. Klima and Ursula Bellugi, The Signs of Language (Harvard University Press, 1979).
On Gestuno, see:
Bill Moody, “International Sign: A Practitioner's Perspective,” Journal of Interpretation (2002), pp. 1–47.
If you'd like to see Bliss in action, the 1974 film Mr. Symbol Man, directed by Bruce Moir and Bob Kingsbury, can be ordered from the National Film Board of Canada.
JAMES COOKE BROWN AND THE LANGUAGE OF LOGIC
On Korzybski, see:
Marvin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Dover Publications, 1957).