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| Dec 13, 2020 at 9:26 | comment | added | gktscrk | Shouldn't this really ask "What dialect of ancient Greek did most natural philosophers learn?" It sounds unlikely that once it was realized that someone was a natural philosopher, they would be carted off and taught very different things (incl. language) than the other people they were around. | |
| Dec 13, 2020 at 8:06 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @Cosmas Zachos: And see my update for written work in Aeolic. | |
| Dec 13, 2020 at 7:34 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @Cosmas Zachos: I don't suppose that Newton spoke attic to his colleagues. I mean when Halley famously asked Newton what kind of orbits an inverse square law would give, do you suppose that question was phrased in attic? | |
| Dec 13, 2020 at 7:07 | history | edited | Mozibur Ullah |
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| Dec 13, 2020 at 7:04 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 13, 2020 at 7:02 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @cosmas zachos: Nevertheless we do know they spoke a dialect of Aeolic in Miletus. And we do know that greek natural philosophy began there (they would not have used the term Greek). Discussion is done not only in writing but also in speaking. | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 14:49 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | @Mozibur Ullah To the best of my knowledge, there is no extant Ancient Greek text on anything remotely scientific or mathematical in Aeolic, no? | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 5:06 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | The ancient greek language was spoken in many different dialects. Given that philosophy emerged in dialogue, that is spoken speech; after all, that is how Plato presented it as, we must assume philosophy was spoken in many different dialects. However, the earliest Greek natural philosophy arose on Asia Minor, that is in Miletus. Here, they spoke Aeolic. In fact, it's considered as a subdialect of Aeolic. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 2:57 | vote | accept | Sam Gallagher | ||
| Dec 10, 2020 at 17:36 | answer | added | Cosmas Zachos | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 16:24 | history | edited | user466 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 10, 2020 at 7:30 | comment | added | Conifold | Clarke's Classical Education in Britain, 1500-1900 does not address this directly. But I suspect that natural philosophers did not get special treatment, and judging by the list of Greek authors used, grammar schools and universities taught Epic (Homer, Hesiod) and Attic (dialect of Athens, Plato, Aristotle, classical tragedies). Koine is essentially a redux of Attic, and the dialect of New Testament, see ΑΟΙΔΟΙ: Greek Dialects, so it was the base. | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 2:46 | history | asked | Sam Gallagher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |