Translation in knowledge, knowledge in translation /

"This volume explores the intersection between Translation Studies and History and Philosophy of Science to shed light on the workings of scientific communities, the dissemination of knowledge across languages and cultures, and the transformation in the process of that knowledge and of the scie...

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Other Authors: Sumillera, Rocío G. (Editor), Surman, Jan, 1983- (Editor), Kühn, Katharina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:Benjamins translation library (BTL), volume 154
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman & Katharina Kühn
  • Reading scientific translations in the first half of sixteenth-century Europe through Hernando Colón's library / Rocío G. Sumillera
  • Jérôme Lalande and Giuseppe Toaldo and the translation of astronomical works for a wider public in the 1700s / Simon Dagenais
  • Travelling knowledge in nineteenth-century science : Jacob Moleschott and materialism in translation / Laura Meneghello
  • Translating the Iron Curtain : a translational perspective on the epistemic dimension of Radio Free Europe / Simon Ottersbach
  • Paratexts in sixteenth-century editions and translations of Maciej z Miechowa's Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis / Saskia Metan
  • The Latin translation of Philosophical transactions (1671-1681) / Pablo Toribio
  • Knowledge in series : Central European positivisms and their media, 1860-1900 / Jan Surman
  • Knowledge transfer in the Soviet Union from the perspective of visual culture / Philipp Hofeneder
  • The Leviathan and the woods : translating forestry policies under Peter I of Russia / Maria Avxentevskaya
  • Energetic visions : translating science in the German Monist movement, 1900-1915 / Christoffer Leber
  • Science writing in Hindi in colonial India : a critical view of the motivations / Sandipan Baksi
  • An (imagined) community : the Translation Project in the Social Sciences and its impact on the scientific community in post-Soviet Russia / Irina Savelieva.