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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fransen, Sietske (Editor ), Hodson, Niall (Editor ), Enenkel, K. A. E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Colección:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 51.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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  • "As the author intended" : transformations of the unpublished writings and drawings of Simon Stevin (1548-1620) / Charles van den Heuvel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.