Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf The Popham Notebook and Associated Texts

John Wallis (1618-1703) was a founder member of the Royal Society, a mathematician and pioneer of calculus, and a linguist whose work included the groundbreaking tract on phonetics, De Loquela (1653).

David Cram is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, formerly Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Linguistics. By background and training he is a theoretical linguist, but the bulk of his research has concerned the history of ideas about language in the seventeenth century, on topics ranging from philosophical languages to linguistic eschatology. He is co-editor, with Jaap Maat, of George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), and the Unpublished Papers (OUP, 2001).


Jaap Maat is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and is a member of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). He has published widely on the history of linguistic ideas and the history of logic. He is a founding editor of History of Humanities and co-editor, with David Cram, of George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), and the Unpublished Papers (OUP, 2001).

INTRODUCTION
i. Deafness in philosophical, medical, legal and religious perspectives
ii. Teaching language to the deaf before the 1650s
iii. Literature on teaching language to the deaf in seventeenth-century Britain
iv. The education of Alexander Popham
v. Aftermath and retrospect
PART I: THE POPHAM NOTEBOOK
1. Transcription of text, with textual footnotes
PART II: THE EDUCATION OF ALEXANDER POPHAM
2. John Wallis (1661) First letter to Boyle on teaching language to the deaf
3. William Holder (1669) An Appendix Concerning Persons Deaf and Dumb
4. John Wallis (1670 [1662]) Second letter to Boyle on teaching language to the deaf
5. William Holder (1678) A Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions of July 1670
6. John Wallis (1678) A Defence of the Royal Society; In answer to the cavils of Dr. William Holder
PART III: AFTERMATH AND LEGACY
7. John Wallis to Thomas Beverley (1698) On teaching language to the deaf
8. John Wallis and Johann Conrad Amman (1700) An exchange of letters on the method of teaching the deaf
9. Henry Baker (1723) A Short Essay on Speech
Bibliography
Index