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:

Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.), writer of foreword.

Owen, Abigail, editor.

Manning, Patrick, 1941- eeditor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientific literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Scientific literature.

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 recurso on line (xvii, 437 p.) :) il., maps.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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 range, from Eurasia to Africa and the Americas. Contributors literate in Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Minnan, Ottoman, and Persian explore the history of science in the context of world and global history, investigating global patterns and implications in a multilingual and increasingly interconnected world. Chapters reveal cosmopolitan networks of shared practice and knowledge about the natural world from 1000 to 1800 CE, emphasizing both evolving scientific exchange and the emergence of innovative science. By unraveling the role of translation in cross-cultural communication, Knowledge in Translation highlights key moments of transmission, insight, and critical interpretation across linguistic and faith communities.

Contents:

Foreword / by Charles Burnett

Introduction. Knowledge in translation / Patrick Manning

part I. Mapping the Earth. The geographical concept of the Catalan mappamundi / Katrin Kogman-Appel

Interpretation, intention, and impact : Andalusi Arab and Norman Sicilian examples of Islamo-Christian cartographic translation / Karen Pinto

Mountains of the Moon, lakes in the sun, and Sinus Gangeticus / Rila Mukherjee

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. 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

The case of Bingata : trafficking textile art and technique across the East China Sea / BuYun Chen

Mapping the tracks of Yu : Yellow River statecraft as science and technology, 1200-1600 / Ruth Mostern

part III. Advancing health and welfare. Animal remedies in space and time : the case of the nail of the great beast / Irina Podgorny

Translating heaven : divination and political authority under the Yuan Dynasty / Francesca Fiaschetti

Between local and universal : translating knowledge in early modern Ottoman plague treatises / Nükhet Varlık

Transposing knowledge : beyond translation in the medieval Islamic and Japanese medical literary traditions / M.A. Mujeeb Khan

part IV. Charting the skies. The nesting hypothesis for planetary distances and its persistence over the centuries and across cultures / Bernard R. Goldstein and Giora Hon

Marāgha observatory : a star in the constellation of Eurasian scientific translation / Roxann Prazniak

Reading between the lines : attitudes toward Arabic astrology in the Latin marginalia of Alcabitius's Introductorius ad magisterium iudiciorum astrorum / Margaret Gaida

The fourteenth-century transformation in China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy / Dror Weil

Celestial navigation : the first translational science / Pat Seed.

Notes:

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 365-419) e índice.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822986270

0822986272

OCLC:

1053623475