Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World

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Latin and the Enlightenment
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In his ‘Preliminary Discourse’ to the Encyclopédie (1751), d’Alembert granted the usefulness of Latin as a scientific language but lamented, perhaps disingenuously a general decline in its use.1 In…

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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 29 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004271296_enlo_B9789004271029_0046>
First published online: 2014
First print edition: ISBN:9789004265721



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