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See also:DALGARNO, See also:GEORGE (c. 1626–1687) , See also:English writer, was See also:born at Old See also:Aberdeen about 1626. He-appears to have studied at Marischal See also:College; but he finally settled in See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where, according to See also:Wood, " he taught a private See also:grammar-school with See also:good success for about See also:thirty years," and where he died on the 28th of See also:August 1687. He was See also:master of See also:Elizabeth school, See also:Guernsey, for some ten years, but resigned in 1672. In his See also:work entitled Didascalocophus, or the See also:Deaf and Dumb See also:Man's See also:Tutor (Oxford, ,68o), he explained, for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, the See also:hand See also:alphabet for the deaf and dumb, though he does not claim to have invented this method of communication. Twenty years before the publication of his Didascalocophus, Dalgarno had given to the See also:world a very ingenious piece entitled Ars Signorum (1661), dividing ideas into seventeen classes, to be represented by the letters of the Latin alphabet with the addition of two See also:Greek characters. Among the See also:Sloane See also:manuscripts are several tracts by Dalgarno, further elucidating his See also:system of universal shorthand. See also:Leibnitz on various occasions alluded to the Ars signorum in commendatory terms.
The See also:chief See also:works of Dalgarno were reprinted (1834) for the See also:Maitland See also:Club.
End of Article: DALGARNO, GEORGE (c. 1626–1687)
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