A new method of making common-place-books / written by the late learned John Lock, author of the Essay concerning humane understanding ; translated from the French. To which is added something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same subject ... There are also added two letters, containing a most useful method for instructing persons that are deaf and dumb, or that labour under any impediments of speech, to speak distinctly; writ by the late learned John Wallis.

John Locke

Date:: 1706

Credit: A new method of making common-place-books / written by the late learned John Lock, author of the Essay concerning humane understanding ; translated from the French. To which is added something from Monsieur Le Clerc, relating to the same subject ... There are also added two letters, containing a most useful method for instructing persons that are deaf and dumb, or that labour under any impediments of speech, to speak distinctly; writ by the late learned John Wallis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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