Translating early modern science
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2017, [2017]©2017
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| Series: | Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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- "As the author intended" : transformations of the unpublished writings and drawings of Simon Stevin (1548-1620) / Charles van den Heuvel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 Galileo into English / Iolanda Plescia
- Language as "Universal Truchman" : translating the republic of letters in the 17th century / Fabien Simon