Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in...
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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A 2023/3366
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uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in its broadest sense
Introduction / Chapter One: What s in a word? Exploring word histories / Chapter Two: Selected background to nineteenth-century Britain / Chapter Three: What s in a name? Exploring scientific eponyms / Chapter Four: Focus on affixation / Chapter Five: The naming of diseases, conditions and medical developments in the nineteenth century / Chapter Six: Travelling the world and the naming of zoological specimens in the 1800s / Chapter Seven: Exploring the world of nineteenth-century botany / Chapter Eight: Palaeontology and geological time / Chapter Nine: The nineteenth-century pharmacy and new chemical terminology
