Interesting.. Regarding the Latin and science link, I think it makes a false assumption. He says that science didn't slow down when people stopped writing in Latin... But many non-English-speaking scientists end up publishing in English; it's the new universal language. And some science did get slowed down, or at least misdirected--I'm in paleontology, and there's a wonderful German text on bone histology that next to no one here knows about. So we miss out because we can't read it. So it is still an issue.
Interesting.. Regarding the Latin and science link, I think it makes a false assumption. He says that science didn't slow down when people stopped writing in Latin... But many non-English-speaking scientists end up publishing in English; it's the new universal language. And some science did get slowed down, or at least misdirected--I'm in paleontology, and there's a wonderful German text on bone histology that next to no one here knows about. So we miss out because we can't read it. So it is still an issue.
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