Latin as the Language of Science and Learning

1. Verfasser: Roelli, Philipp , [VerfasserIn] , [http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut]
Körperschaft: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021].
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 646 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Lingua academica Bd. 7
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Parallelausgabe: ISSN: 3-11-074575-5
Online Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements and practicalities
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Semantics of the term 'science'
  • 1 Modern languages: Wissenschaft, science, наука, επιστήμη
  • 2 Terms for 'science' in Greek and Latin
  • 3 The wider semantic field of 'science' in the classical languages
  • 4 What is science and how does it relate to Denkstil?
  • 5 The demarcation problem
  • Part 2 Diachronic panorama of Latin science and learning
  • 6 Introductory remarks on Denkstile, epochs, and genres
  • 7 Greek science and its language in Antiquity
  • 8 Foundations of Roman science in Latin
  • 9 The age of the artes liberales
  • 10 The adoption of the Greek Denkstil
  • 11 University science: An Aristotelian Revolution
  • 12 New approaches in the Renaissance
  • 13 New science in the old tongue
  • 14 The demise of Latin as language of science
  • 15 Niches where Latin survived longer
  • 16 From Latin to vernacular science
  • Part 3 Changes in the language of science
  • 17 Introduction to the linguistics of scientific language
  • 18 Linguistic development studied in a general scientific corpus
  • 19 Conclusions on the Latin used in scientific texts
  • 20 Specific corpora: Arithmetic, historiography, scientific poetry
  • 21 How are new scientific concepts expressed?
  • 22 How was Greek science imported into other languages?
  • 23 The reuse of Latin in the modern languages of science
  • 24 On the relation between science, culture, and language
  • Summary and concluding remarks
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Bibliographies
  • General Index