Marcelo Epstein
Marcelo Epstein holds degrees in Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and from the Technion, and in Classics from the University of Calgary. He is Professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary. He is the creator of a course on the Latin of Science, on which this book is based, which forms part of his vision of an integrated, rather than compartmentalized, university education. Epstein was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (2000), named University Professor in Rational Mechanics (2002), awarded a Cancam Medal for outstanding contributions in applied mechanics (2009), and honored with the Levi-Civita Award (2014) in differential geometry and mechanics. He is the author of several books and monographs in continuum mechanics, differential geometry, and biomechanics.
Books by Marcelo Epstein
Latin of Science
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This unique text provides a firsthand experience of what was for centuries the universal language of science—Latin. A historical survey sets the context for Latin selections from seventeen authors who wrote in Latin and three whose works were translated into Latin. The anthology of twenty-two science readings in Latin covers eight subject areas from general knowledge selections from scholars like Pliny the Elder and Isidore of Seville to writings on optics from Alhazen and Newton. A brief essay introduces each author while vocabulary, syntax, and contextual notes facilitate reading the Latin passages. Images present the Latin selections as their original readers would have experienced them.
- Authors: Agricola, Alberti, Alhazen, Bacon, Copernicus, de Soto, Euclid, Faventinus, Galvani, Harvey, Isidore of Seville, Kepler, Leibniz, Libavius, Maimonides, Newton, Oresme, Pliny the Elder, Seneca, Vitruvius
- Subject Areas: Architecture and Engineering, Astronomy and Rational Mechanics, Chemistry, Economics, General Knowledge, Mathematics, Medicine, and Optics
