Research Catalog

Title

Translating early modern science / edited by Sietske Fransen, Niall Hodson, Karl A.E. Enenkel.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

xvii, 344 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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.

Series Statement

Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies In Early Modern Culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 51

Uniform Title

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 51.

Subject

• 1500-1799
• Science > Europe > History > 16th century
• Science > Europe > History > 17th century
• Science > Europe > History > 18th century
• Scientific literature > Translating > History. > Europe
• Translators > Europe > History
• Scholars > Europe > History
• Translating and interpreting > Europe > History
• Knowledge, Sociology of > History
• Intellectual life
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Scholars
• Science
• Scientific literature > Translating
• Translating and interpreting
• Translators
• Fachsprache
• Naturwissenschaften
• Europe > Intellectual life
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 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 -- Index nominum.

Call Number

JFE 18-1123

ISBN

• 9789004349254
• 9004349251

LCCN

2017026216

OCLC

982652168

Title

Translating early modern science / edited by Sietske Fransen, Niall Hodson, Karl A.E. Enenkel.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies In Early Modern Culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 51

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 51.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1799

Added Author

Fransen, Sietske, editor.

Hodson, Niall, editor.

Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-1123