Translating early modern science /
Translating early modern science /
edited by Sietske Fransen, Niall Hodson, Karl A.E. Enenkel.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 344 pages) : illustrations.
- Intersections : Interdisciplinary Studies In Early Modern Culture, v. 51 1568-1181 ; .
- Intersections 51. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2017-II, ISBN: 9789004328013. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Translators and Translations of Early Modern Science / Translation in the Circle of Robert Hooke / Networks and Translation within the Republic of Letters: The Case of Theodore Haak (1605–1690) / What Difference does a Translation Make? The Traité des vernis (1723) in the Career of Charles Dufay / ‘Ordinary Skill in Cutts’: Visual Translation in Early Modern Learned Journals / ‘As the Author Intended’: Transformations of the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Simon Stevin (1548–1620) / Bringing Euclid into the Mines: Classical Sources and Vernacular Knowledge in the Development of Subterranean Geometry / Image, Word and Translation in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Quaestiones Mechanicae / ‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’: Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print / Taming Epicurus: Gassendi, Charleton, and the Translation of Epicurus’ Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century / Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Copernican Rhetoric / ‘Now Brought before You in English Habit’: An Early Modern Translation of Galileo into English / Language as ‘Universal Truchman’: Translating the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century / Index Nominum. Sietske Fransen -- Felicity Henderson -- Jan van de Kamp -- Michael Bycroft -- Meghan C. Doherty -- Charles van den Heuvel -- Thomas Morel -- Joyce van Leeuwen -- Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Rodolfo Garau -- B. Harun Küçük -- Iolanda Plescia -- Fabien Simon --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004349261
10.1163/9789004349261 DOI
2017026216
1500-1799
Science--History--Europe--16th century.
Intellectual life.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Scholars.
Science.
Scientific literature--Translating.
Translating and interpreting.
Translators.
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe.
History.
Q127.E8 / T725 2017
418/.035
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Translators and Translations of Early Modern Science / Translation in the Circle of Robert Hooke / Networks and Translation within the Republic of Letters: The Case of Theodore Haak (1605–1690) / What Difference does a Translation Make? The Traité des vernis (1723) in the Career of Charles Dufay / ‘Ordinary Skill in Cutts’: Visual Translation in Early Modern Learned Journals / ‘As the Author Intended’: Transformations of the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Simon Stevin (1548–1620) / Bringing Euclid into the Mines: Classical Sources and Vernacular Knowledge in the Development of Subterranean Geometry / Image, Word and Translation in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Quaestiones Mechanicae / ‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’: Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print / Taming Epicurus: Gassendi, Charleton, and the Translation of Epicurus’ Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century / Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Copernican Rhetoric / ‘Now Brought before You in English Habit’: An Early Modern Translation of Galileo into English / Language as ‘Universal Truchman’: Translating the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century / Index Nominum. Sietske Fransen -- Felicity Henderson -- Jan van de Kamp -- Michael Bycroft -- Meghan C. Doherty -- Charles van den Heuvel -- Thomas Morel -- Joyce van Leeuwen -- Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Rodolfo Garau -- B. Harun Küçük -- Iolanda Plescia -- Fabien Simon --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004349261
10.1163/9789004349261 DOI
2017026216
1500-1799
Science--History--Europe--16th century.
Intellectual life.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Scholars.
Science.
Scientific literature--Translating.
Translating and interpreting.
Translators.
Europe--Intellectual life.
Europe.
History.
Q127.E8 / T725 2017
418/.035