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Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English
By Gordin, Michael D.
- ISBN
- 9780226000299
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on March 1, 2015 | Science and Technology
An interesting problem with this book is that Gordin (history, Princeton Univ.; The Pseudoscience Wars) approaches the question of a common scientific language from the perspective of underdogs: languages that could have become the global standard but failed. Thus, we learn a great deal about Russian; Esperanto and its offshoot, Ido; and German. Likely this has to do with the author's fluency in Russian and his inexperience with Latin. Consequently, it i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
