L’ASTRONOMIE DANS LE DICTIONNAIRE DES ARTS ET DES SCIENCES (1694) DE THOMAS CORNEILLE  

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Cormier, Monique C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Lexicography (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 3 (2011), page 306–327.
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In 1690, the Acade´mie franc¸aise, which had worked for more than half a century on producing a dictionary that would reflect correct speech, was caught off-guard when one of their own, Academy member Antoine Furetie` re, published his own Dictionnaire universel first. Furthermore, the Academy’s dictionary, which appeared only in 1694, excluded terms of “arts and sciences”, but Furetie`re claimed to have included all French words, including those of science and technology. Fearing for its own dictionary, the Acade´mie franc¸aise commissioned Thomas Corneille, who had succeeded his older brother Pierre in the Academy, to produce a compendium of science and technology to add to the dictionary in progress. Corneille’s Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences would form the last two volumes of the four-volume Dictionnaire de l’Acade´mie franc ¸ aise presented to the king. The fact that the two dictionaries were published so close together explains why they are always compared. Overall, to date, the judgements of Corneille’s dictionary have been very critical, but were they always fair? Consider particularly the critique by Reynier in the nineteenth century and that by Ross in the twentieth. Using five astronomy terms in the family of physical objects–come`te, plane`te, Soleil, e´toile and syste`me–we will take a new look at Thomas Corneille’s work. Without dismissing the inevitable comparison with Furetie` re, or being excessively indulgent or severe, we want to judge Thomas Corneille’s work in light of the question that seems most important to us: to what extent does Corneille’s dictionary reflect the advancements in astronomy resulting from Galileo’s first discoveries and the issues surrounding this discipline in the seventeenth century?

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