Knowledge in translation : global patterns of scientific exchange, 1000-1800 CE
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Charles Burnett -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Knowledge in Translation / Patrick Manning -- Part I. Mapping the Earth -- Chapter 1. The Geographical Concept of the Catalan mappamundi / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- Chapter 2. Interpretation, Intention, and...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,
2018
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| Sujets: | Translating and interpreting Scientific literature Translating and interpreting-History. Scientific literature-Translations-History and criticism Electronic books Übersetzung Wissenschaftstransfer Interdisziplinarität Geschichte 1000-1800 |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| Résumé: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Charles Burnett -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Knowledge in Translation / Patrick Manning -- Part I. Mapping the Earth -- Chapter 1. The Geographical Concept of the Catalan mappamundi / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- Chapter 2. Interpretation, Intention, and Impact: Andalusi Arab and Norman Sicilian Examples of Islamo-Christian Cartographic Translation / Karen Pinto -- Chapter 3. Mountains of the Moon, Lakes in the Sun, and Sinus Gangeticus / Rila Mukherjee -- Chapter 4. The Global and the Maritime: Divergent Paradigms for Understanding the Role of Translation in the Emergence of Early Modern Science / Robert Batchelor -- Part II. Constructing Society -- Chapter 5. Charting China in the Thirteenth-Century World: The First English Translation of Zhu fan zhi and Its Recipients in China in the 1930s / Huei-Ying Kuo -- Chapter 6. The Case of Bingata: Trafficking Textile Art and Technique across the East China Sea / BuYun Chen -- Chapter 7. Mapping the Tracks of Yu: Yellow River Statecraft as Science and Technology, 1200-1600 / Ruth Mostern -- Part III. Advancing Health and Welfare -- Chapter 8. Animal Remedies in Space and Time: The Case of the Nail of the Great Beast / Irina Podgorny -- Chapter 9. Translating Heaven: Divination and Political Authority under the Yuan Dynasty / Francesca Fiaschetti -- Chapter 10. Between Local and Universal: Translating Knowledge in Early Modern Ottoman Plague Treatises / Nükhet Varlık -- Chapter 11. Transposing Knowledge: Beyond Translation in the Medieval Islamic and Japanese Medical Literary Traditions / M. A. Mujeeb Khan -- Part IV. Charting the Skies -- Chapter 12. The Nesting Hypothesis for Planetary Distances and Its Persistence over the Centuries and across Cultures / Bernard R. Goldstein and Giora Hon Chapter 13. Marāgha Observatory: A Star in the Constellation of Eurasian Scientific Translation / Roxann Prazniak -- Chapter 14. Reading between the Lines: Attitudes toward Arabic Astrology in the Latin Marginalia of Alcabitius's Introductorius ad magisterium iudiciorum astrorum / Margaret Gaida -- Chapter 15. The Fourteenth-Century Transformation in China's Reception of Arabo-Persian Astronomy / Dror Weil -- Chapter 16. Celestial Navigation: The First Translational Science / Pat Seed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| ISBN: | 9780822986270 0822986272 9780822945376 0822945371 |