A comparison: Simon Stevin and Justus Lipsius's political lifes. Concepts in (neo)latin and vernacular language towards the late 16th century
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Abstract
The famous scientist Simon Stevin wrote a fascinating short treatise: Het Burgherlick Leven-Vita politica (Leyde 1590), several months after the publication by the same publisher of Lipsius' famous Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae libri sex. In order to explain political life to the citizens of the Nether lands Stevin wrote in vernacular and attacked the use of (neo)latin by humanists. Stevin was obliged to create new words in Dutch vernacular to translate the latin political concepts. Stevin also attacked the humanist way of reasoning by citation of classical authors. Against humanist logic he proposed a deductive way of reasoning as practised by mathematicians (more mathematico).
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