Translating early modern science
by Enenkel, K. A. E. Fransen, Sietske Hodson, Niall
"Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple European vernaculars challenged the hegemony long held by Latin as the language of learning, translation assumed a heightened significance. This volume illustrates how the act of translating texts and images was an essential component in the circulation and exchange of scientific knowledge. It also makes apparent that translation was hardly ever …
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- Full title :Translating early modern science / edited by Sietske Fransen, Niall Hodson, Karl A.E. Enenkel.
Summary
"Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple European vernaculars challenged the hegemony long held by Latin as the language of learning, translation assumed a heightened significance. This volume illustrates how the act of translating texts and images was an essential component in the circulation and exchange of scientific knowledge. It also makes apparent that translation was hardly ever an end in itself; rather it was also a livelihood, a way of promoting the translator's own ideas, and a means of establishing the connections that in turn constituted far-reaching scientific networks"--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico (xvii, 344 p.) :) : il.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004349261, 900434926X
- oclc:on1105467497
- Dewey Decimal:418/.035
Table of Contents
Introduction: Translators and translations of early modern science / Sietske Fransen -- Part 1. Translating networks of knowledge -- Translation in the circle of Robert Hooke / Felicity Henderson -- Networks and translation within the republic of letters : the case of Theodore Haak (1605-1690) / Jan van de Kamp -- What difference does a translation make? : the Traite des vernis (1723) in the career of Charles Dufay / Michael Bycroft -- "Ordinary skill in cutts" : visual translation in early modern learned journals / Meghan C. Doherty -- Part 2. Translating practical knowledge -- "As the author intended" : transformations of the unpublished writings and drawings of Simon Stevin (1548-1620) / Charles van den Heuvel -- Bringing Euclid into the mines : classical sources and vernacular knowledge in the development of subterranean geometry / Thomas Morel -- Image, word and translation in Niccolo Leonico Tomeo's Quaestiones mechanicae / Joyce van Leeuwen -- "Secrets of industry" for "common men" : Charles de Bovelles and early French readerships of technical print / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Part 3. Translating philosophical knowledge -- Taming Epicurus : Gassendi, Charleton, and the tran…
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