Robert Boyle — "I have chosen to write in English, that my countrymen might profit from my labor…"
I have chosen to write in English, that my countrymen might profit from my labors.
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His decision to write in the vernacular, making science accessible beyond Latin scholars.
Date: mid-17th century
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