Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science : New Words, New Worlds (Paperback)

Introduction / Chapter One: What’s in a word? Exploring word histories / Chapter Two: Selected background to nineteenth-century Britain / Chapter Three: What’s in a name? Exploring scientific eponyms / Chapter Four: Focus on affixation / Chapter Five: The naming of diseases, conditions and medical developments in the nineteenth century / Chapter Six: Travelling the world and the naming of zoological specimens in the 1800s / Chapter Seven: Exploring the world of nineteenth-century botany / Chapter Eight: Palaeontology and geological time / Chapter Nine: The nineteenth-century pharmacy and new chemical terminology