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Unit 3
Content of the concept and the main features of the scientific text

I. Read the following text.

The emergence and development of scientific style is associated with the
evolution of various branches of scientific knowledge, various fields of human

activity. Initially, the style of scientific presentation was close to the style of the

storytelling. Thus, the scientific works of Pythagoras, Plato and Lucretius differed

in a special, emotional perception of phenomena. The department of scientific style

from the artistic was in the Alexandrian period, when in Greek, spreading its

influence on the whole of the then cultural world, began to create consistent

scientific terminology. Subsequently, it was replenished at the expense of Latin,

which became the international scientific language of the European Middle Ages.

In the Renaissance scientists sought brevity and precision scientific description

free of emotional and artistic elements of presentation are contrary to abstract

logical reflection of nature. It is known that the "artistic" character of Galileo's

statement was annoying Kepler, and Descartes found that the style of scientific

evidence of Galileo was excessively "fictitious". In the future, the model of

scientific language became strictly logical statement of Newton.

The scientific style has its varieties (subclasses): popular science, scientific

and business, scientific and technical (industrial and technical), scientific and

journalistic, educational and scientific.

The style of scientific works is determined, in the final analysis, by their

content and objectives of scientific communication - if possible, accurately and

fully explain the facts of reality, to show causal relationships between phenomena,

to identify patterns of historical development, etc. The scientific style is

characterized by a logical sequence of presentation, organized by the system of

links between parts of the statement, the authors' desire for accuracy, concordance,

uniqueness of the statement while preserving the saturation of the content.