Legacy of the Roman Empire learned classes throughout the Middle Ages; this is especially seen during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Books which had a revolutionary impact on science, such as Nicolaus Copernicus' "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (1543), were composed in Latin. This language was not supplanted for scientific purposes until the 18th century, and for formal descriptions in zoology, as well as botany - it survived to the later 20th century. The modern international Binomial nomenclature holds to this day: the scientific name of each species is classified by a Latin or Latinized name. Today the Romance languages, which comprise all languages that descended
The Mask of the Sun entitled "The Serpent's Star" was developed in 1983 by Ultrasoft and published by Brøderbund. The Mask of the Sun The Mask of the Sun is an graphical interactive fiction game developed by Ultrasoft and published in North America by Brøderbund and in Europe by Ariolasoft. It was released in 1982 for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64. The hero is Mac Steele, an archaeologist who needs to find the Mask of the Sun in order to obtain an antidote to a poison that afflicts him from an artifact that he found. The game mostly takes place in