Article ID: CBB049950725

Gaps in the translators' knowledge (2019)

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The editor of an Arabic translation from the Greek sometimes encounters difficulties when the original is no longer extant and the translator has failed to understand certain passages fully. This is the case with geographical or astronomical terms in Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' Airs, waters and places. Here the astronomer Ptolemy is explained as being "the king of Egypt", and the translator himself is to be blamed for the faux pas, not a later copyist.

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Authors & Contributors
Garofalo, Ivan
Overwien, Oliver
Lorusso, Vito
Witt, Mathias
Giangrasso, Dorella
Mavrodis, Aimilios
Concepts
Medicine
Greek language
Arabic language
Manuscripts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Linguistics; philology
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
13th century
12th century
Places
Europe
Mediterranean region
Byzantium
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