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Sir William Jones is best known for his famous Third Discourse of 1786 in which he proposed that Sanskrit's affinity to Greek and Latin could be explained by positing a common, earlier source, one known today as Indo-European. This is a biography of this fascinating man.Cannon, Garland is the author of 'Life And Mind of Oriental Jones Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521025263 and ISBN 0521025265.
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