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UWinnipeg: Research in Paradise - Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel

Wesley Stevens (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Winnipeg) presents "Research in Paradise"

There are places in the world which offer unusual resources for research. One of them is the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel , Germany. Not only did Duke Augustus begin to collect printed books in the sixteenth century, his successors did the same without a break right up to the present time. And their library did not ever suffer from war, flood, or fire. That great library in a small town offers financial support for the use of its books. Wesley was working on the vocabulary of Latin sciences and maths: words such as addo and subtraho which dictionaries of Latin often omitted until recently, even though Roman (Cicero), early Christian (Augustine) and medieval writers (Bede, Gerbert) used them all the time. Geometria is also not found in the dictionaries, though the word and the activity were everywhere. The result has been a great deal of misunderstanding about our past. He will describe his adventures with the best Latin dictionaries and some of the results for our history.

Lieu: University of Winnipeg, 1L08

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