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Mapping of the Republic of Letters shows that Benjamin Franklin's correspondence, while he was in Europe, crossed the Atlantic more times than Voltaire's.
<h3>What was the significance of the Republic of Letters project?</h3>
The Republic of Letters is the long-distance intellectual community inside the late seventeenth and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. It fostered verbal exchange between the various intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment or philosophes as they have been referred to in France.
Franklin's proposed alphabet protected seven letters to represent vowels. This set consisted of new letters, further to 5 letters from the present English alphabet: a, e, i, o, u. the first new letter was fashioned as a ligature of the letters o and a and used to represent the sound [ɔ] (as written in IPA).
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