A quadruplet of inventions / [Thomas Northmore].

  • Thomas Northmore
Date:
[1799]
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Credit: A quadruplet of inventions / [Thomas Northmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ tomy, Botany, Chemiftry,* &c. are at <f prefent furrounded, (and which con- “ dilute, as it were, a monopoly of thofe “ fciences to the Grecian and Roman) “ they were illuftrated by plain Englifh terms that convey meaning, to how much “ greater perfection would thofe fciences cc fpeedily arrive ? And again, p. 132-3, ‘f The Greeks and Romans, from whom mod of our knowledge is derived, very “ naturally and wifely gave appellations “ in their own tongue to their various improvements and difcoveries. The cc greateft part of thefe appellations Eu- “ ropean nations religioufly adhere to, “ fo that the modern ftudent is under the cc neceffity * This is to he underftood as relating to the old chemical nomenclature j and what is faid of Greek, and Latin, mull be taken with fome grains of allowance.— Where a new fcientifick nomenclature is to be framed, to adopt certain expreflions, particularly thofe of greateft import, from the dead languages, may very fairly be allowed to the univerfality of fcience. At the fame time it mud not be forgotten, that education fhould be ren¬ dered as eafy as poffible, and this cannot be done better, than by adhering to our native tongue. If it may af¬ terward become neceflary to latinize a vocabulary, where is the difficulty ?
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