Maria Auxent, Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin (2015), has published widely on the history and philosophy of early modern scientific language and science communication. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Glenn W. Most is an External Scientific Member of the MPIWG, Berlin, and Professor Emeritus of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published many books and articles on classical philology and comparative classical traditions worldwide.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsGeneral IntroductionMaria Auxent and Glenn W. Most1 Sign and Signification in Ancient GreeceGlenn W. Most2 Signs and Signification in Chinese DivinationMichael Lackner3 Names as Signs in Classical IslamHannah C. Erlwein4 Judaism: Signifying God according to MaimonidesYehuda Halper5 Signs and Signification in Latin Medieval PhilosophyDominic Dold6 Words and Signs in the Vernacular in SanskritEric Moses Gurevitch7 Artificial Signs and Signification in Early Modern EuropeMaria AuxentAppendixBibliographyIndex

Maria Auxent, Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin (2015), has published widely on the history and philosophy of early modern scientific language and science communication. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Glenn W. Most is an External Scientific Member of the MPIWG, Berlin, and Professor Emeritus of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published many books and articles on classical philology and comparative classical traditions worldwide.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsGeneral IntroductionMaria Auxent and Glenn W. Most1 Sign and Signification in Ancient GreeceGlenn W. Most2 Signs and Signification in Chinese DivinationMichael Lackner3 Names as Signs in Classical IslamHannah C. Erlwein4 Judaism: Signifying God according to MaimonidesYehuda Halper5 Signs and Signification in Latin Medieval PhilosophyDominic Dold6 Words and Signs in the Vernacular in SanskritEric Moses Gurevitch7 Artificial Signs and Signification in Early Modern EuropeMaria AuxentAppendixBibliographyIndex

Maria Auxent, Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin (2015), has published widely on the history and philosophy of early modern scientific language and science communication. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Glenn W. Most is an External Scientific Member of the MPIWG, Berlin, and Professor Emeritus of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published many books and articles on classical philology and comparative classical traditions worldwide.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsGeneral IntroductionMaria Auxent and Glenn W. Most1 Sign and Signification in Ancient GreeceGlenn W. Most2 Signs and Signification in Chinese DivinationMichael Lackner3 Names as Signs in Classical IslamHannah C. Erlwein4 Judaism: Signifying God according to MaimonidesYehuda Halper5 Signs and Signification in Latin Medieval PhilosophyDominic Dold6 Words and Signs in the Vernacular in SanskritEric Moses Gurevitch7 Artificial Signs and Signification in Early Modern EuropeMaria AuxentAppendixBibliographyIndex