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 medium for ... ”