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Author Watts, Catherine

Title Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science New Words, New Worlds
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (367 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Cultural History Series
Routledge Studies in Cultural History Series
Contents Intro -- Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 What's in a word? Exploring word histories -- 2 Selected background to nineteenth-century Britain -- 3 What's in a name? Exploring scientific eponyms -- 4 Focus on affixation -- 5 The naming of diseases, conditions and medical developments in the nineteenth century -- 6 Travelling the world and the naming of zoological specimens in the 1800s -- 7 Exploring the world of nineteenth-century botany -- 8 Palaeontology and geological time
9 The nineteenth-century pharmacy and new chemical terminology -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000891713
1000891712