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 f…
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 f…
This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of science and scientific writing in Latin from antiquity up to the present, and linguistic forays that try to demarcate scientific Latin from other registers and to identify groups of different l…