![]() ![]() ![]() Simultaneously, Latin was needed in administrative matters crossing linguistic borders. Latin was the original language of Roman law, researched in every university and directly or indirectly applied by the courts of many countries. Even much later, after the creation of new written languages, the authority and the use value of Latin was still overwhelming. In contrast, in the regions of the defunct Western Empire there were, in the beginning, no written languages based on the vernaculars. It is easy to understand that Latin was quite quickly given up in the Byzantine Empire because it had to compete with an older cultural language, Greek, that had a status comparable, if not superior, to Latin. In the course of time, the Byzantine administration and law became entirely Greek even though Latin loan words remained in legal use. The early Byzantine Emperors used Latin in their administration, and the great codification of Roman law of Emperor Justinian, later called Corpus juris civilis, was essentially edited in Latin. After the collapse of the Western Empire, this was first visible in the former eastern parts of the Roman Empire. The great common denominator of all European legal cultures is Roman law and its language, Latin, used in law irrespective of the language of the people. Mattila, in Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition), 2006 The Medieval Dominance of Latin This principle is the basis for some dosimeters and to this day remains an effective device for teaching electricity. The movement of the gold leaves indicates the presence of ionizing radiation. Then, if radiation is transmitted into the environment, the ions generated will neutralize the charges on the gold leaves and they will relax. If two thin gold leaves are suspended side by side from a thin wire in a glass jar and an electric charge is transferred down the wire from simply touching the thin conductor wire by amber on whose surface an electron excess has to be produced by rubbing the amber, the leaves will repel each other. At the center of this description was the first electroscope that was used to demonstrate ionization from x-rays ( Villard, 1908). Observations of electricity were described in detail in a Latin language book authored by William Gilbert and published in 1600 (cf. Jones, in Comprehensive Biomedical Physics, 2014 1.01.3.2 Electroscope ![]()
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