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Review of Bilingualism or not: the education of minorities, by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
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Goals, roles, and language skills in colonizing central equatorial Africa
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Review of French pulpit oratory, 1598–1650: A study in themes and styles, with a descriptive catalogue of printed texts, by Peter Bayley
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Review of The complete Enochian dictionary: A dictionary of the angelic language as revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley, by Donald C. Laycock
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Dee (1527-1608) was 'mathematician and Astrologer Royal to Queen Elizabeth I, author of the main introductory textbook on mathematics of his age, and innovator of many of the navigational aids which enabled the Elizabethan explorers to discover the New World' (7), who 'exercised a powerful intellectual influence on the greatest minds of the time' (19), and whose collection of over 2500 books and manuscripts on 'mathematics, magic, alchemy, philosophy, cryptography, classical literature, geography, and the qabalah' (17) was one of the most important of the day. His obsessive search for knowledge utilized magical as well as rational means: 'His avowed aim was to establish contact with the angels, to discover that knowledge which was not to be had either from books or from experiment' (11). Communications from the angels were naturally exotic.
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/67797
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