Review published in:
Linguistic Equality
Edited by Humphrey Tonkin
[Language Problems and Language Planning 39:3] 2015
► pp. 312–318
Book review

Michael D. Gordin. Scientific Babel: How science was done before and after global English / The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. London: Profile Books Ltd., 2015. 424 / 415 pp. (Different subtitles and page numbers). Page numbers according to the London edition.

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| Universität Duisburg-Essen
Published online: 25 February 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.39.3.07amm
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