A brilliant history of the language of science that traces how the way we communicate scientific knowledge has shifted with politics and power from Latin to French, German and Russian to English.
Michael Gordin is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he specialises in the history of modern science. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and is a Guggenheim Fellow. His love of language cannot be matched: a veritable polyglot, he speaks Russian, German, English, Ido, Esperanto and Latin among many other languages. He has published on the history of science, Russian history and the history of nuclear weapons.
Insightful, engaging and based on superb scholarship, lightly
worn
*New Scientist*
Erudite and engaging
*Nature*
He has hit on a marvellous idea and executed it with panache and
laconic humour.
*Guardian*
It is hard to imagine that anyone with even the slightest interest
in science or language will fail to find this book a treat
*Prospect*
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