Title: The Latin of science /
Authors: Epstein, M.; Spivak, Ruth
Year: 2019
Subjects: Latin language Readers Science.; Latin language
Abstract: "An anthology of Latin readings present fifteen authors who wrote in Latin and three whose works were translated into Latin. Readings cover eight subject areas from medicine to chemistry. A historical survey sets the context for the readings and a brief essay introduces each author and work. Vocabulary, syntax, and contextual notes facilitate reading the unadapted Latin. For most selections, images drawn from manuscripts, incunabula, and first print editions present the Latin selections as their original readers would have experienced them."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: General knowledge -- Architecture and engineering -- Medicine -- Mathematics -- Astronomy and rational mechanics -- Economics -- Chemistry -- Alchemia -- Appendix I. The pronunciation of Latin -- Appendix II. Compendium of Latin grammar -- Appendix III. Manuscript and original source quirks -- Latin glossary.