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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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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 emergence of new languages of science, the spread of scientific ideas, and the development of scientific writing |
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historical linguistics |
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linguistics |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Technical writing -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Scientists -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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SCIENCE -- History.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Science
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Technical writing
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Europe
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, editor.
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LC no. |
2011017257 |
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3110255065 |
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9783110255065 |
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