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Latin as the Language of Science and Learning
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Philipp Roelli
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Funded by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
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This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as ‘science’ through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to ‘science’ as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin’s heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.
Author / Editor information
Philipp Roelli, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Part 1 Semantics of the term ‘science’
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 22, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110745832
Hardcover published on:
December 6, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110745757
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Front matter:
13
Main content:
646
Illustrations:
15
Coloured Illustrations:
35
Tables:
13
Coloured Tables:
15
Keywords for this book
Latin Science; Semantics of Science; Corpus Linguistics; Languages of Science
Audience(s) for this book
Latinists, historians of science, linguists
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BY 4.0
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