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Torbern Bergman's foreign correspondence
Tobern Bergman's foreign correspondence: Letters from foreigners to Torbern Bergman
Torbern Bergman's Foreign Correspondence. Edited by Göte Carlid and Johan Nordström. With an Introductory Biography by Hugo Olsson. [With a Portrait.].
Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern Bergman
Author: Anders Lennartson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-08-31
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 3030491943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tells the story of two of the most important figures in the history of chemistry. Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) was the first to prepare oxygen and realise that air is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen; he also discovered many important organic and inorganic substances. His fellow chemist and good friend, Torbern Bergman (1735–1784), was one of the pioneers in analytical and physical chemistry. In this carefully researched biography, the author, Anders Lennartson, explains the chemistry of Scheele and Bergman while putting their discoveries in the context of other 18th-century chemistry. Much of the information contained in this work is available in English for the first time.
Torbern Hergman's Foreign Correspondence
Torbern Bergman's Foreign Correspondence
Torben Bergman's Foreign Correspondance
Torbern Bergman's Foreign Correspondence
Scientific Babel
Author: Michael D. Gordin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 022600029X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
