Deák Antal András: A Duna fölfedezése

Tartalom - III.A DANUBIUS PANNONICO-MYSICUS, 1726

T II E DISCOVERY OF THE DANUBE Hungarian, Dutch and French masters. The Danube monograph is a one hundred percent European achievement. His work concerning the organisation of his research was helped by the fact that these different mother tongues did not yet act as barriers between scientists in Europe at the end of the 17

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h century where the spirit of the uniform Latin culture of the Middle Ages still lingered. The representatives of Hungarian, Croatian, Slovakian, Transylvanian, Austrian, German, Italian, French, Dutch and English nations, who all contributed to the book in one way or another, could communicate with each other with no difficulty and all understood the book edited in Latin. A similarly magnificent, unlimited flow of information seems to be evolving today with the spread of the English language. The facsimile and the texts and illustrations borrowed from the volumes represent not only an aesthetically exquisite work abundant in genuine theories by a splendid author who contributed to the development of several new branches of science but also the choice fruit of the exemplary joint work of the scientfic and artistic community of Europe that was not constrained by borders or nationality. 157