Premodern experience of the natural world in translation / edited by Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, and Dror Weil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krause, Katja, 1980- editor.

Auxent, Maria, editor.

Weil, Dror, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Translating--History.

Science.

Experience--History.

Experience.

Science--Philosophy.

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Science--Translating.

Genre:

essays.

Essays.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Summary:

"This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across time and space during this period. The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point from which to view translation as a process of interaction between different epistemic domains. The book is structured around four parts -between terms within and across languages; across sciences and scientific norms; between verbal and visual systems; and through the expertise of practitioners and translators- which examine key questions around what constituted experience of the natural world in the premodern area and the impact of translation processes and agents in shaping experience. Providing a comprehensive global account of historical studies on the travel and translation of experience in the premodern world, this book will be of interest to scholars in the history of translation, history of science, early modern history, and philosophy of science"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Contextualizing Premodern Experience in Translation

Experience and Knowledge among the Greeks: From the Presocratics to Avicenna / Michael Chase

pt. II Experience Terms

Introduction: Experience Terms in Translation / Steven Harvey

1. The Epistemic Authority of Translations: Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and John Buridan on Aristotle's empeiria / Katja Krause

2. Scientific Tasting: Flavors in the Investigation of Plants and Medicines from Aristotle to Albert the Great / Marilena Panarelli

3. Making Sense of ingenium: Translating Thought in Twelfth-Century Latin Texts on Cognition / Jonathan Morton

4. The Encounter of Image and xiang in Matteo Ricci's Western Art of Memory (Xiguo Jifa, 1596) / Shixiang Jin

pt. III Sciences and Scientific Norms

Introduction: Experience, Translation, and the Norms of Science / Jamie Cohen-Cole

5. Translating Method: Inference from Behavior to Anatomy in Avicenna's Zoology / Tommaso Alpina

6. Translating from One Domain to Another: Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islamic Theology (kalam) / Hannah C. Erlwein

7. Can the Results of Experience Be the Premises of Demonstrations? Four Hundred Years of Debate on a Single Line of Maimonides's Treatise on the Art of Logic / Yehuda Halper

8. The Weight of Qualities: Quantifying Temperament in Early Modern British Mathematical Medicine / Julia Reed

pt. IV Verbal and Visual Systems

Introduction: Translation in Practice: Visualizing Experience / Katharine Park

9. Translating Alchemical Practice into Symbols: Two Cases from Codex Marcianus graecus 299 / Vincenzo Carlotta

10. Translating Medical Experience in Tables: The Case of Eleventh-Century Arabic Taqwim Works / Dror Weil

11. From Textual to Visual: Translation and Enhancement of Arabic Experience in the New Book Genre Tacuina sanitatis of Giangaleazzo Visconti (c. 1390) / Dominic Olariu

12. The Pictorial Idioms of Nature: Image Making as Phytographic Translation in Early Modern Northern Europe / Jaya Remond

pt. V Expertise in Translation

Introduction: Expertise in Translation / Sven Dupre

13. The Translator's Cut: Cultural Experience and Philosophical Narration in the Early Latin Translations of Avicenna / Amos Bertolacci

14. Toledan Translators, Roger Bacon, and the Dynamic Shades of Experience / Nicola Polloni

15. Table Talk / Florence Hsia

16. The Experience of the Translator: Richard Eden and A Treatyse of the Newe India (1553) / Maria Auxent.

Notes:

This book grew out of a series of conferences and workshops organized under the auspices of Katja Krause's research group "Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body, ca. 800-1650" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781032193359

1032193352

OCLC:

1295218782