Scholars have shown that historicizing studies of sight can shed light on everything from art history to statecraft to scientific inquiry. But the disciplined eye of the scholar of language—the philological observer—has received little attention, an omission particularly worthy of notice given recent interest in how the history of humanities might be incorporated into the history of science more broadly. This article contributes to a treatment of philological observation in the nineteenth century. Focusing particularly on the career of the Munich Latinist Eduard Wölfflin (1831–1908), a founding father of the monumental Latin lexicon known as the Thesaurus linguae Latinae, it isolates three distinct modes of philological observation: the constitutive, the collative, and the estimative. In the process, it indicates parallels between the kinds of sight practiced by philologists and those of their contemporaries in other investigative arenas, showing how developments on a Latinist's desk can be tied into much larger networks of cultural and epistemic concerns

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语言学观察

学者们表明，对视觉的历史化研究可以揭示从艺术史到治国之道再到科学探究的方方面面。但语言学者——语言学观察者——的纪律严明的眼光几乎没有受到关注，鉴于最近对如何将人文史更广泛地纳入科学史的兴趣，这一疏忽尤其值得注意。本文有助于对 19 世纪的文献学观察进行处理。特别关注慕尼黑拉丁学家爱德华·沃尔夫林（Eduard Wölfflin，1831-1908 年）的职业生涯，他是被称为拉丁语词库，它分离出三种不同的语文学观察模式：构成的、整理的和估计的。在这个过程中，它表明了语言学家和他们同时代人在其他调查领域所实践的视觉类型之间的相似之处，展示了拉丁学家办公桌上的发展如何与更大的文化和认知问题网络联系起来