Knowledge in translation : global patterns of scientific exchange, 1000-1800 CE / edited by Patrick Manning & Abigail Owen ; with a foreword by Charles Burnett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manning, Patrick, editor.

Owen, Abigail, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Scientific literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Scientific literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

Contents:

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 BatchelorPart 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 WelfareChapter 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 HonChapter 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 SeedNotes; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 10, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780822986270

0822986272

Publisher Number:

99991414654

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.