Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English

Michael D. Gordin

ISBN 10: 1781251150 / ISBN 13: 9781781251157

Editore: PROFILE BOOKS, 2017

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• Titolo: Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English
• Editore: PROFILE BOOKS
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1781251150
• ISBN 13: 9781781251157
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very good

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'Michael Gordin's excellent Scientific Babel asks what drives the languages science uses, and how English came to dominate.' - New Scientist

Informazioni sull?autore

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.