Knowledge in Translation : Global Patterns of Scientific Exchange, 1000-1800 CE /

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In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science in the twentieth century, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.) (writer of foreword.), Owen, Abigail (Editor ), Manning, Patrick (eeditor.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Scientific literature > Translations > History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Charles Burnett
  • Introduction. Knowledge in translation / Patrick Manning
  • part I. Mapping the Earth. The geographical concept of the Catalan mappamundi / Katrin Kogman-Appel
  • Interpretation, intention, and impact : Andalusi Arab and Norman Sicilian examples of Islamo-Christian cartographic translation / Karen Pinto
  • Mountains of the Moon, lakes in the sun, and Sinus Gangeticus / Rila Mukherjee
  • The global and the maritime : divergent paradigms for understanding the role of translation in the emergence of early modern science / Robert Batchelor
  • part II. Constructing society. Charting China in the thirteenth-century world : the first English translation of Zhu fan zhi and its recipients in China in the 1930s / Huei-Ying Kuo
  • The case of Bingata : trafficking textile art and technique across the East China Sea / BuYun Chen
  • Mapping the tracks of Yu : Yellow River statecraft as science and technology, 1200-1600 / Ruth Mostern
  • part III. Advancing health and welfare. Animal remedies in space and time : the case of the nail of the great beast / Irina Podgorny
  • Translating heaven : divination and political authority under the Yuan Dynasty / Francesca Fiaschetti
  • Between local and universal : translating knowledge in early modern Ottoman plague treatises / Nükhet Varlık
  • Transposing knowledge : beyond translation in the medieval Islamic and Japanese medical literary traditions / M.A. Mujeeb Khan
  • part IV. Charting the skies. The nesting hypothesis for planetary distances and its persistence over the centuries and across cultures / Bernard R. Goldstein and Giora Hon
  • Marāgha observatory : a star in the constellation of Eurasian scientific translation / Roxann Prazniak
  • Reading between the lines : attitudes toward Arabic astrology in the Latin marginalia of Alcabitius's Introductorius ad magisterium iudiciorum astrorum / Margaret Gaida
  • The fourteenth-century transformation in China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy / Dror Weil
  • Celestial navigation : the first translational science / Pat Seed.

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