The Language of Astronomy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. The Language of Astronomy 11
6. Terminology in the Wild: Enactive Meaning-Making in the Roman Surveyors 41
7. Rich Names: Implications of Terminology in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Medicine, and Siege Lore 67
8. The Problem of Biological Terminology in Aristotle’s De generatione animalium (On Generation of Animals) 85
9. Coming to Terms with Aristotle: Technical Terminology in the Poetics and Beyond 101
10. Form, Terminology, and Clarity in Aristotle 131
11. Scientific Nomenclature of Species and Naming Practices in (Ancient) Biology 183
12. The Rise of Botanical Terminology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 205
13. Terminology and Professionalism in Technologized Medicine 227
14. Everyday Language and Technical Terminology: Reflective Abstractions in the Long-Term History of Spatial Terms 243
15. Epikhartika: About Language on Maps with Special Reference to Colonial Matters 259
16. Notes on Contributors 297
17. Index 299