Lukubration
Lukubration ( lat. Lucubratio : sitting or working by lamplight, 'lucubrating') is an outdated foreign word for scientific work at night. Although this type of activity is widespread today because of the artificial light (see night owl ), the terms lucration and lucration are hardly used any more.
The words lucubratio and night work are also used to describe the work made in this way. Especially in the time of humanism and during the Enlightenment, some authors called their writings - often written in Latin - Lucubrationes or night work .
Selection of Lucubrationes
- Erasmus of Rotterdam : Lucubrationes (1516)
- Ulrich Zasius : Lucubrationes aliquot sane quam elegantes nec minus erudit (1518)
- Martin Luther : Lucubrationes in Psalm XXI (1522)
- Clementii Clementini… Lucubrationes, in quibus nihil est quod non sit ex usu artis… Petrus, Basileae 1535 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
- Rudolf Agricola : Rudolphi Agricolae lucubrationes (1539)
- Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh (who was the first to use the term encyclopedia in a title, but only used it as an alternative to his night work ): Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia (1541)
- Henry Briggs : Lucubrationes et Annotationes in opera posthuma J. Neperi (1619)
- Elias Birnstiel : Lucubrationes (1665)
- John Landen : Mathematical Lucubrations (1755)
- Otto Zwierlein : Lucubrationes Philologae (2004)
Remarks
- ↑ See Cicero , de divinatione 2.142: "nunc quidem propter intermissionem forensis operae et lucubrationes detraxi et meridiationes addidi" ("Now, however, because of the interruption of my work on the forum, I have stopped working at night and introduced a midday rest").
Web links
Wiktionary: Lukubration - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
