Not Dead Yet
Anthony Grafton: Latin, 8 January 2015
Latin: Story of a World Language
by Jürgen Leonhardt, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg.
Harvard, 352 pp., £22.95, November 2013,978 0 674 05807 1 Show More
by Jürgen Leonhardt, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg.
Harvard, 352 pp., £22.95, November 2013,
“... in other words, he did so in a learned language that he shared, as he knew, with the astronomer. Jürgen Leonhardt admires Halley’s poem, in Latin: Story of a World Language, as ‘a clean, stylistically skilful piece of work’. And he makes clear that Halley was only one of the innovative thinkers who still found Latin an appropriate ... ”