Las versiones de Medicina y Botánica y la nueva terminología científica en el siglo xviii

Abstract

During the Enlightenment, translations brought new science to
Spain with the coining of new terms. Latin was the language traditionally
employed to denote specialized concepts. However, it gave way to the use
of vernacular language in such a way that scientific knowledge became
more secular in some specialized fields such as, for instance, Medicine,
which for a long period of time had been inaccessible to ordinary people. These are arguments that have also been put forward in the past by eminent
authors such as Simon Abril and Huarte de San Juan.