Knowledge in Translation
2018·455 pages
A historical exploration of translation's role in spreading scientific knowledge across cultures from 1000 to 1800 CE.
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A historical exploration of translation's role in spreading scientific knowledge across cultures from 1000 to 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 exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, across fields of knowledge—cartography, health and medicine, material construction, astronomy—and a wide geographical rang...
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