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The Greatest Invention
- A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
- Narrado por: Todd Portnowitz
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With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye.
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- Alex Woodend
- 05-17-22
Fascinating ride through writing's history
I learned a lot about early scripts, how they're created and how people decipher them. Chapters are short and easy to digest. The narrator/translator spoke very clearly and compellingly. Highly recommend!
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- R. Steiner
- 02-03-23
Interesting…but also awkwardly and unnecessarily essentialistic
An interesting history of writing. The history itself is fascinating…but the author’s writing feels awkward and problematic at times. She is a flowery writer whose prose is filled with metaphors and insightful comparisons, but also a lot Eurocentric essentialism. She writes poetically about the scripts of Cyprus as if they capture some essence of Europe and gets awkwardly less flowery and more dismissive when writing about non-European scripts. All of this is completely unnecessary; the book would have been just as compelling if we didn’t take the step of presuming that written language is somehow expressive of the heart of a people or a place.
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Awfy
Terrible, painfully read! Chopped up drivel. Never ending strokes of genius. Self adoration at its best.
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