[A professor from the Grand Academy of Lagado shows Gulliver his research] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A professor from the Grand Academy of Lagado shows Gulliver his research]
Subject: Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Learned Institutions and Societies; Language
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Laputa; Balnibarbi
Description: Here we see a professor from the Grand Academy on Balnibarbi holding a book which is filled with parts of sentences created by his machine. This machine had all the words in the language of Balnibarbi in different moods, tenses, and declensions written on blocks. These blocks were held together by wires on a frame, and students of the professor would rotate the handles, forming different arrangements of the words. They would then find sentence fragments and record them in this book. The goal of this experiment was to create a complete body of work that comprised all of the arts and sciences. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21698
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843); Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
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Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Learned Institutions and Societies; Language

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