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The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language and discourse. The chapters explore the forming of scientific communities, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
©2011
Temas:
1700-1799
Science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Technical writing > Europe > History > 18th century.
Scientists > Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Sciences > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Rédaction technique > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SCIENCE > History.
Science
Technical writing
Europe
historical linguistics.
linguistics.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Editors acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Introduction: Languages of science in the eighteenth century
  • Section 1. The forming of scientific communities
  • Church, state, university, and the printing press: Conditions for the emergence and maintenance of autonomy of scientific publication in Europe
  • Philology in the eighteenth century: Europe and Sweden
  • The Swedish Academy of Sciences: Language policy and language practice
  • Section 2. The emergence of new languages of science
  • Scientific literacy in eighteenth-century Germany
  • From vernacular to national language: Language planning and the discourse of science in eighteenth-century Sweden
  • From Latin and Swedish to Latin in Swedish. On the early modern emergence of a professional vernacular variety in Sweden
  • Science and natural language in the eighteenth century: Buffon and Linnaeus
  • From theory of ideas to theory of succedaneum: The Linnaean botanical nomenclature(s) as a point of view on the world
  • Section 3. The spread of scientific ideas
  • Linnaeuss international correspondence. The spread of a revolution
  • The influence of Carl Linnaeus on the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1771
  • Linnaeus and the Siberian expeditions: Translating political empire into a kingdom of knowledge
  • The introduction of the Linnaean classification of nature in Portugal
  • Section 4. The development of scientific writing
  • Linnaeus as a connecting link in Swedish language history
  • Calendar and aphorism: A generic study of Carl Linnaeuss Fundamenta Botanica and Philosophia Botanica
  • The reflective cultivator? Model readers in eighteenth-century Swedish garden literature
  • The linguistic construction of scientificality in early Swedish medical texts
  • Eighteenth-century English medical texts and discourses on reproduction
  • Subject index.

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