Translating early modern science

Translating early modern science

by Enenkel, K. A. E. Fransen, Sietske Hodson, Niall

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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 …

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Title Statements

  • 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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Place of Publication:Leiden
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2017

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvii, 344 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789004349261, 900434926X
  • oclc:ocn990778159
  • LC Classification:Q127.E8
  • Dewey Decimal:418/.035

Table of Contents

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 -- "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 -- Taming Epicurus : Gassendi, Charleton, and the translation of Epicurus' Natural philosophy in the seventeenth century / Rodolfo Garau -- Ibrahim Muteferrika's Copernican rhetoric / B. Harun Kucuk -- "Now brought before you in English habit" : an early modern translation of …

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