title: [Linguistic concerns and lexical mechanisms in the "Introducción a la Historia Natural, y a la Geografía Fisica de España" by William Bowles].
abstract: Linguistic mechanisms of 18th century scientific language are studied in the first Natural History text originally drafted in Spanish. William Bowles describes linguistic concerns in science over the definition of terms that refer to realities in the three natural kingdoms. Diatopic and diastratic variants and definition procedures are reported, demonstrating the importance of these texts to the History of Science and the History of the Spanish Language.
authors: Departamento de Lengua Española, Lingüística General y Traducción e Interpretación, Universidad de Murcia. prevenga@um.es
authors: Pilar
authors: P
authors: Díez de Revenga Torres
authors: Miguel Angel
authors: MA
authors: Puche Lorenzo
mesh_terms: D049671:History, 18th Century; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D019021:Natural History / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history