The Legacy of Botanical Latin by Erin Petrella (.PDF)
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The Legacy of Botanical Latin by Erin Petrella
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Overview: Tracing the development of botanical Latin and nomenclature from antiquity until the present day, this book interrogates the long-standing notion of universal intelligibility – the idea that when one is describing, illustrating and naming plants, they are able to be understood by anyone. The field of botany has used Latin as a language of expression since its inception in the late 15th century. By the 20th century, however, botanical Latin had become little more than a set of rules and recommendations for the composition of scientific names and diagnoses. This, combined with the waning of Latin as a lingua franca, had an unexpected result: the collapse of the ideal of universal intelligibility, which had long been assumed to be embedded in the Latin language.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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