Book ID: CBB001420402

Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (2012)

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Cook, Harold John (Editor)
Dupré, Sven (Editor)


Lit Verlag GmbH & Co.


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: ii + 466 pp.; ill.; index
Language: English

Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. The story of the Tower of Babel is not only an etiology of the multitude of languages, it also suggests that a "confusion of tongues" confounds communication. However, as the contributors to this volume show, translation is always a transformation. This book examines how such transformations generate new knowledge and how translations helped to establish a new science. Situated at the border of the Germanic and Romance languages, home to a highly educated population, the Low Countries fostered multi-lingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation.

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Review Margócsy, Dániel (2014) Review of "Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 205-207). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kaplan, Judith R. H.
Gordin, Michael D.
Nathan Vedal
Jacqueline L. Cowan
Jeffrey M. Binder
Chalozin-Dovrat, Lin
Concepts
Language and languages
Linguistics; philology
Science and culture
Translations
Historical linguistics
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
Modern
Renaissance
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Places
Netherlands
Americas
Germany
Soviet Union
Caucasus region
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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