Scientific Babel: The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English by Michael D. Gordin
Scientific Babel: The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English
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Michael D. Gordin
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Scientific Babel: The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English

Michael D. Gordin

415 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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Today scientists are a resolutely monoglot community, using exclusively English - but the rise of English was anything but inevitable and only very recent. In a sweeping history, from the Middle Ages through to today, Michael Gordin untangles the ...

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