Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)

Abstract

To use the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) you must download the software Coruña Corpus Tool (http://handl.handle.net/2183/21850). The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) is part of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). As a specialised corpus, CETA has been compiled for the description of English Astronomy writing between 1700 and 1900, from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. All text files in CETA are accompanied by a metadata file with extensive information about the text sampled and its author's sociolinguistic background. Samples can be filtered according to certain parameters contained in the metadata files. For more information, see Moskowich, Isabel and Crespo, Begoña. 2012. Astronomy ‘playne and simple’. The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.173).