Dominik Berrens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut für Altertumswissenschaften/Klassische Philologie at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and was educated in classics and biology at the Universities of Freiburg, Mainz and Innsbruck. For the thesis providing the origin for this book he was awarded the Dalberg-Preis, the Research Prize of the Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation and the Literatur-Preis of the University of Innsbruck.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Neo-Latin as scientific language and the importance of naming; 2. Naming in early modern science; 3. Naming the classes of objects and the disciplines; 4. Natural objects of the old world; 5. Natural objects of the new world; 6. Naming the microscopic world; Conclusion; References; Index.

Dominik Berrens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut für Altertumswissenschaften/Klassische Philologie at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and was educated in classics and biology at the Universities of Freiburg, Mainz and Innsbruck. For the thesis providing the origin for this book he was awarded the Dalberg-Preis, the Research Prize of the Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation and the Literatur-Preis of the University of Innsbruck.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Neo-Latin as scientific language and the importance of naming; 2. Naming in early modern science; 3. Naming the classes of objects and the disciplines; 4. Natural objects of the old world; 5. Natural objects of the new world; 6. Naming the microscopic world; Conclusion; References; Index.

Dominik Berrens is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut für Altertumswissenschaften/Klassische Philologie at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and was educated in classics and biology at the Universities of Freiburg, Mainz and Innsbruck. For the thesis providing the origin for this book he was awarded the Dalberg-Preis, the Research Prize of the Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation and the Literatur-Preis of the University of Innsbruck.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Neo-Latin as scientific language and the importance of naming; 2. Naming in early modern science; 3. Naming the classes of objects and the disciplines; 4. Natural objects of the old world; 5. Natural objects of the new world; 6. Naming the microscopic world; Conclusion; References; Index.