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General studies of English linguistics of the seventeenth
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references are also contained in L. Rosiello, Linguistica
illuminista (Bologna, 1967).
On the linguistic doctrines of Francis Bacon see: O.
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printed in
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LIA FORMIGARI
[See also Baconianism;
Language; Macrocosm and Micro-
cosm; Metaphor; Myth;
Nature; Structuralism.]
