Scientific Crosscurrents between Italy and England: Italian Contributions to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Seventeenth to Ninet

ISBN-13: 9783631888094 / Angielski

Giovanni Iamartino; Lucia Berti

Opis

This book investigates the Royal Society's relations with Italy through a socio-historical and critical linguistic analysis of the papers concerning Italian research published in the Transactions and of the epistolary exchanges between the Society's Fellows and Italian scholars.

Spis treści

Anglo-Italian relations, scientific journals, Republic of Letters, history of science, Critical Discourse Analysis, early and late modern periods.

O autorze

Lucia Berti is a research fellow at the University of Milan, where she teaches English Linguistics. Her research focuses on the history and development of scientific periodicals, the history of foreign language teaching and lexicography (English and Italian), and Anglo-Italian relations