Today, the language of science is English. But the dominance of
this particular language is a relatively recent phenomenon - and
far from a foregone conclusion. In a sweeping history that takes us
from antiquity to the modern day, Michael D. Gordin untangles the
web of politics, money, personality and international conflict that
created the monoglot world of science we now inhabit. Beginning
with the rise of Latin, Gordin reveals how we went on to use (and
then lose) Dutch, Italian, Swedish and many other languages on the
way, and sheds light on just how significant language is in the
nationalistic realm of science - just one word mistranslated into
German from Russian triggered an inflammatory face-off between the
two countries for the credit of having discovered the periodic
table. Intelligent, revealing and full of compelling stories,
Scientific Babel shows how the world has shaped science just as
much as science has transformed the world.
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