La Magia Naturalis di Giovan Battista Della Porta. Lingua, cultura e scienza in Europa all’inizio dell’età moderna

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] The Magic Naturalis by Giovan Battista Della Porta. Language, culture and science in Europe at the beginning of the modern age

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Abstract

This work on G.B. Della Porta's "Magia naturalis" (1558) and on the sectorial languages that characterize it makes accessible a text that has played a role of considerable importance in the history of European culture and science. Original and innovative both in the method of exegetical procedures and in the general structure, the study proposes a new model of analysis in which different disciplines integrate each other approaching and enhancing all the elements of the text, that is considered as a crossroads of functions and meanings. From the analysis of the Latin, German and Italian versions, the scientific world, social demands and cultural needs of the time emerge. After having dismembered and X-rayed the text, the author reconstructs a complete world of science and culture through the language and the languages that compose it.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] The Magic Naturalis by Giovan Battista Della Porta. Language, culture and science in Europe at the beginning of the modern age
Original languageItalian
PublisherPeter Lang
Number of pages245
VolumeIRIS 17
ISBN (Print)3-906767-22-1
Publication statusPublished - 2001

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Keywords

  • early modern German
  • history of science
  • languages for special purposes
  • linguaggi settoriali
  • linguistica testuale
  • storia della scienza
  • tedesco protomoderno
  • terminologia
  • terminology
  • textlinguistics

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