A course in scientific German

Harry Blake Hodges

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• German language
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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 18
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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COURSE
IN
SCIENTIFIC GERMAN.
PREPARED BY
BLAKEHARRY HODGES,
INSTRUCTOR IN CHEMISTRY AND GERMAN IN HABVABD
UNIVERSITY.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY D. C. HEATH & CO.
1887.Copyright, 1877.
By H. B. HODGES.PREFACE.
object haspreparing this bookmy been to supply the
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want, long felt by English and American students of
aid in the acquirement of a knowledgescience, of some
sufficiently practical natureof the German language of a
them to read with ease the scientific literature ofto enable
Germany.
The great difference between the words, phrases, and
—the German of polite literature, usuallygeneral style of
—the only kind taught in our schools and colleges, and
that of scientific writers, will, I think, justify me in the
phrase "Scientific German," and in makinguse of the a
special course of this branch of the language.
How inadequate the knowledge of German acquired
aid of the commonlythrough the text-books used in this
country is to the wants of the student of science I know
from my own experience, as well as from that of the many
American and English students whom I met during my
three years' residence in Germany; and since my return
I have been struck by the difficulty which students who
have studied German two years at this University find
in reading German scientific journals.
The book begins with exercises in German and English,
the sentences being carefully selected and arranged from
standard text-books on Physics, Chemistry, Mineralogy,
and Botany; each subject is treated by itself, and thePREFACE.iv
twenty-one lessons, each lessonwhole is divided into being
in Germanfollowed by a series of questions on its subject-
the object of this being to drill the ear of thematter,
give him practice in framing the answersstudent, and for
inhimself from the context, and committing them to
memory ; for, while I do not believe it possible for a
student to learn to converse in German v;ith with-facility
or atout residing in Germany, least in a German family,
still I see no reasonwhy he should not be taught to under-
stand the spoken language, and to express himself briefly
the point, byand to means of some such method as I have
adopted.
Great care has been taken to select only such sentences
as represent the more general and important facts in each
science, and such as can be easily understood without the
aid diagrams and figures ; these have been arrangedof with
reference to the gradual development of the subject, in
impart to the whole a certain degree of complete-order to
this book, therefore, withoutness. A student can begin
and—having had any scientific training, although this is
—of the book he will become more or lessnot the purpose
principles of the natural sciences,familiar with the main
at the same time that he is mastering the difficulties of the
language.
student has someIt is assumed, however, that the
language, andknowledge of the general principles of the
in reading easy German prose andhas had some practice
German thein translating simple English sentences into ;
and sci-book is therefore to be used by classes in colleges
entific in their second year's course in German, orschools
during the latter part of their first.
student will find inAll scientific words and phrases the
the vocabulary at the end of the book ; the meanings of