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The history of language has been dynamic, in evolutionary and cultural terms, and is full of events spanning several fields that shaped the way in which humans have orally and written transmitted information for generations, consolidating art and science, as we know them today.
In Medical field there are three language events that defined the way knowledge is transmitted, the first one was the record of Western medical writings with Hippocrates (Centuries v-vi bc.), which ushered the Greek era of language in medicine, and whose influence extended to the 2nd century ad. The second language event was the incorporation of Latin as a scientific language, which became the language par excellence to pass knowledge on different fields, an example were the writings of Vesalius and Harvey, as well as the work of Isaac Newton: Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica, published in 1687.

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