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  1. Language change and Nineteenth-Century science
    new words, new worlds
    Author: Watts, Catherine
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    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... more

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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    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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367709839
    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Subjects: British & Irish history; Europäische Geschichte; Geschichte der Medizin; Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften; Geschichte und Archäologie; HISTORY / General; History of medicine; History of science; Language: history & general works; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Literature: history & criticism; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Sociolinguistics; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte; Soziolinguistik; Sprache: Geschichte und Allgemeines
    Scope: 248 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    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