Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language : illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. : [One line in Latin from Horace] : With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak. / By William Thornton, M.D. member of the Societies of Scots Antiquaries of Edinburgh and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society of Nautical Hist. of Edin: the American Philosophical Society, &c.

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Uniform Title:Cadmus
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26258.
Main Author: Thornton, William, 1759-1828
Corporate Author: American Philosophical Society
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, and sold by J. Debrett, bookseller, London, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]
Series:Early American imprints. no. 26258.
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Physical Description:vii, 2 unnumbered pages, 10-110 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 21 cm (8vo)
Format: Microfilm Book
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Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written languag...

Authors: Thornton, William, 1759-1828
Published: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, for the author, and sold by J. Debrett, bookseller, London, 1793
Physical Description: vii, 2 unnumbered pages, 10-110 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 21 cm (8vo), Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
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