Latin As the Language of Science and Learning

Roelli, Philipp

ISBN 10: 3110745755 / ISBN 13: 9783110745757

Editore: Walter de Gruyter, 2021

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• Titolo: Latin As the Language of Science and Learning
• Editore: Walter de Gruyter
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110745755
• ISBN 13: 9783110745757
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Philipp Roelli, Universität Zürich, Schweiz. Philipp Roelli, University of Zurich, Switzerland.