Scientific Babel
Subtitle: how science was done before and after global English
By: Michael D. Gordin
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780226000299
Subjects: Globalization; Communication in science; Technical English; English language; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-402) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Talking science; title: The perfect past that almost was; title: The table and the word; title: Hydrogen oxygenovich Speaking Utopian; title: The wizards of Ido; title: The linguistic shadow of the Great War; title: Unspeakable; title: The Dostoevsky machine; title: All the Russian that's fit to proint; title: The Fe curtain; title: Anglophonia; title: Babel beyond.