TAILIEUCHUNG - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 73 - The Birth of Scientific English

Hi vọng IELTS Academic Reading Sample 73 - The Birth of Scientific English sẽ cung cấp những kiến thức bổ ích cho các bạn trong quá trình ôn tập nâng cao kiến thức trước khi bước vào kì thi của mình. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo. | The Birth of Scientific English World science is dominated today by a small number of languages including Japanese German and French but it is English which is probably the most popular global language of science. This is not just because of the importance of English-speaking countries such as the USA in scientific research the scientists of many non-English-speaking countries find that they need to write their research papers in English to reach a wide international audience. Given the prominence of scientific English today it may seem surprising that no one really knew how to write science in English before the 17th century. Before that Latin was regarded as the lingua franca for European intellectuals. The European Renaissance c. 14th-16th century is sometimes called the revival of learning a time of renewed interest in the lost knowledge of classical times. At the same time however scholars also began to test and extend this knowledge. The emergent nation states of Europe developed competitive interests in world exploration and the development of trade. Such expansion which was to take the English language west to America and east to India was supported by scientific developments such as the discovery of magnetism and hence the invention of the compass improvements in cartography and - perhaps the most important scientific revolution of them all - the new theories of astronomy and the movement of the Earth in relation to the planets and stars developed by Copernicus 1473-1543 . England was one of the first countries where scientists adopted and publicised Copernican ideas with enthusiasm. Some of these scholars including two with interests in language -John Wall s and John Wilkins - helped Found the Royal Society in 1660 in order to promote empirical scientific research. Across Europe similar academies and societies arose creating new national traditions of science. In the initial stages of the scientific revolution most publications in the national languages

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