Latin in a Time of Change: The Choice of Language as Signifier of a New Science?
Latin in a Time of Change: The Choice of Language as Signifier of a New Science?
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DOI：
10.1086/694189
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发表时间：
2017-09-01
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0.6
通讯作者：
Fransen, Sietske
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作者：
Fransen, Sietske
这篇文章讨论了17世纪早期的三位作家(伽利略、笛卡尔和范赫尔蒙特)以及指导他们决定偶尔用各自的方言写作的原因，尽管拉丁语仍然是学习交流的公认语言。从他们的作品中，我们可以看到他们的选择是社会的、政治的，而且总是具有很高的重要性。这些多语种作家对语言的选择传达了一种有时含蓄，有时明确的信息。他们对拉丁语和白话文的使用一方面证明了他们在国际学术界的地位，另一方面证明了他们对改变教育制度的兴趣和投入。
This essay discusses three authors from the early seventeenth century (Galileo, Descartes, and Van Helmont) and the reasons that guided their decisions to write occasionally in their respective vernacular languages even though Latin remained the accepted language for learned communication. From their writings we can see that their choices were social, political, and always of high importance. The choice of language of these multilingual authors conveyed a message that was sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit. Their usage of both Latin and vernacular proved, on the one hand, their place in the international learned community and, on the other hand, their interest and investment in changing the educational system.