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[email protected]. Practices of Intellectual Labor in the Republic of Letters: Leibniz and Edward Bernard on Language and European Origins Michael C. Carhart While reading Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel’s Monatliche Unterredungen in 1691, Leibniz came across a discussion of Edward Bernard’s Etymologicon Bri- tannicum. Published in 1689 as an appendix to George Hickes’s grammar of Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, Bernard’s glossary comprised some eight hun- dred terms from the British Isles that shared cognates in the Persian and Armenian languages of central and western Asia as well as several others of eastern and western Europe.