Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450–1850
Dedication
Preface
Contents
List of figures
Introduction
	Subject and state of research
	Aim and coverage
	Synopsis
	A note on terminology
PART I. CONTEXTS
	1. Science
		An era of change
		People and institutions
		Intellectual context
		Disciplines
	2. Latin
		Historical overview
		Latin as the language of early modern science
		Latin and other languages of science
		Demise and persistence
		The lexical peculiarity of scientific Latin
	3. Literature
		‘Literature’ in premodern times
		The place of scientific texts
		The literary form of scientific texts
	4. Print
		Early modern print
		The printed scientific book
PART II. TEXTS
	5. Making sources accessible
		Translations
			Historical overview
			Early modern translations of scientific texts
			What was a translation? A broad notion and its varieties
			A difficult job
		Commentaries
			The commentary in premodern times
			Commenting on science in the early modern era
			Different kinds of commentaries
			Beyond the primary text: ‘free’ commentaries
		Technical dictionaries
			Questions of definition
			Historical overview
			Contents: early modern scientific dictionaries from different disciplines
			Forms: the genre and its fringes
			Languages, users, and uses
		Bibliographies
			General remarks
			Bibliographies of scientific disciplines
			Bibliographies of genres
			Autobibliographies
		Reviews
			Early modern scientific reviews in general
			Latin reviews
			The Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis
	6. Presenting facts
		Letters
			From antiquity to the early modern period
			Scientific correspondence
			Letters in print
		Reports
			An early modern genre
			Overview
			Narrating science
		Journal articles
			Early modern learned journals
			The vernaculars and Latin
			Latin scientific articles: archaic or modern?
			A versatile format
		‘Historiae’
			The genre and its origins
			Early modern ‘historiae’: an overview
			Structures and content
			The language of description
		Table works
			The genre and its early development
			Early modern table works
			Tables and text
	7. Arguing
		Dialogues
			History of the dialogue
			The dialogue as a vehicle of scientific argument
			Varieties
			Prospero Alpino, De balsamo dialogus
		Dissertations
			Disputation and dissertation
			Broadsheets
			Booklets
			Content and approaches
		Monographs
			Notion, name, and history
			Scientific monographs in early modern times
			Some parameters of variation: focus, novelty, intertextuality
	8. Summarizing knowledge
		Pandects
			Pandects, compendia, textbooks
			Pandects: name, notion, history
			Early modern pandects concerned with the natural world
			Transmitting and updating knowledge
			Attracting and orienting the reader
			Style
			Illustrations
		Compendia
			Notion, names, and history
			The early modern period: an age of compendia
			Disciplines
			Formal pluralism
			Aphorisms
		Textbooks
			What is a textbook?
			Historical overview
			Textbooks across the disciplines
			Formal features
			A textbook example
	9. Publicizing science
		Didactic poems
			Historical background
			Scientific didactic poetry in the early modern era
			Didacticism I: layout and paratexts
			Didacticism II: literary techniques
		Panegyrical poems
			Historical overview
			Setting and publication context
			Subjects of praise
			Formal features
		Biographies
			Ancient and medieval biography
			Scientific biography in early modern times: an overview
			Collections
			Authors’ biographies
			Biographical monographs
		Orations
			Speeches oral and written
			Institutions and occasions
			Content and structures
			Style and the audience
	Conclusion
		Towards modern scientific literature
		What next?
Bibliography
	Abbreviations
	Sources
	Secondary literature
Index of Names
Subject Index