¶ In his ‘Preliminary Discourse’ to the Encyclopédie (1751), d’Alembert granted the usefulness of Latin as a scientific language but lamented, perhaps disingenuously a gen…
Latin and the Enlightenment(1,979 words)
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Haskell, Yasmin, “Latin and the Enlightenment”, in: Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, General Editor Craig Kallendorf. Consulted online on 23 October 2017 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004271296_enlo_B9789004271029_0046>
First published online: 2014
First print edition: ISBN:9789004265721
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