Fünffacher Denckring der Teutschen Sprache

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1651
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A set of five paper discs that when turned would produce German words. The first disc contained prefixes, the next three sounds or diphtongs and the last suffixes. Harsdörffer used this in the poetic process for finding rhymes. The work inspired Leibniz's Ars combinatorica and other work.

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