Translating Early Modern Science

Translating Early Modern Science

by Fransen, Sietske

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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 a…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Translating Early Modern Science / 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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Place of Publication:s.l
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (362 p.).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789004349261, 900434926X
  • oclc:on1285289834

Subjects

Histoire History history (discipline) HISTORY / Europe / Medieval

Writers

Fransen, Sietske Enenkel, Karl A.E Hodson, Niall

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