Contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Editor’s acknowledgements XI
5. Introduction
6. Introduction: Languages of science in the eighteenth century 3
7. Section 1. The forming of scientific communities
8. Church, state, university, and the printing press: Conditions for the emergence and maintenance of autonomy of scientific publication in Europe 25
9. Philology in the eighteenth century: Europe and Sweden 45
10. The Swedish Academy of Sciences: Language policy and language practice 63
11. Section 2. The emergence of new languages of science
12. Scientific literacy in eighteenth-century Germany 91
13. From vernacular to national language: Language planning and the discourse of science in eighteenth-century Sweden 107
14. From Latin and Swedish to Latin in Swedish. On the early modern emergence of a professional vernacular variety in Sweden 123
15. Science and natural language in the eighteenth century: Buffon and Linnaeus 141
16. From theory of ideas to theory of succedaneum: The Linnaean botanical nomenclature(s) as “a point of view on the world” 157
17. Section 3. The spread of scientific ideas
18. Linnaeus’s international correspondence. The spread of a revolution 171
19. The influence of Carl Linnaeus on the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1771 193
20. Linnaeus and the Siberian expeditions: Translating political empire into a kingdom of knowledge 207
21. The introduction of the Linnaean classification of nature in Portugal 227
22. Section 4. The development of scientific writing
23. Linnaeus as a connecting link in Swedish language history 247
24. Calendar and aphorism: A generic study of Carl Linnaeus’s Fundamenta Botanica and Philosophia Botanica 263
25. The reflective cultivator? Model readers in eighteenth-century Swedish garden literature 279
26. The linguistic construction of scientificality in early Swedish medical texts 303
27. Eighteenth-century English medical texts and discourses on reproduction 333
28. Subject index 357