Le forme latine della scienza: il Dynamica de potentia di W. G. Leibniz
ISSN: 2611-1411
Language: Latin, Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Iniziative Editoriali Srl
Description
Le forme latine della scienza: il Dynamica de potentia di W. G. Leibniz
In the modern age, the history of Latin is indissolubly interwoven with science, which until the eighteenth century uses this language as a means of communication to announce the new dimensions of the cosmos, and to define the whole taxonomy of reality. A decisive role in this process is played by Leibniz, who, although working from his youth to the project of a characteristic universalis, a mathematical encyclopedic idiom, proposed using Latin - a 'simplified' Latin, devoid of bending and genres - as a universal language. Here is the Latin translation of a section of Leibniz's work Dynamica de potentia, a book on mechanics, written after 1690, which has been reworked many times and which is missing a translation into Italian: the analysis of Sectio III 1 -18, which deals with the impact (for Leibniz the fundamental phenomenon of all physics), highlights the characteristics of the exhibition system and the scientific writing model adopted by the great philosopher.
