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Latin as the Language of Science and Learning (Hardcover)
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Latin as the Language of Science and Learning (Hardcover)
Series: Lingua Academica
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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.
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