A brilliant history of the language of science that traces how the way we communicate scientific knowledge has shifted with politics and power from Latin to French, German and Russian to English.
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Michael Gordin is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he specialises in the history of modern science. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and is a Guggenheim Fellow. His love of language cannot be matched: a veritable polyglot, he speaks Russian, German, English, Ido, Esperanto and Latin among many other languages. He has published on the history of science, Russian history and the history of nuclear weapons.
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