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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Knowledge in translation. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] (OCoLC)1053623475 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick Manning; Abigail Owen; Charles Burnett |
ISBN: | 9780822945376 0822945371 |
OCLC Number: | 1079399641 |
Description: | xvii, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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 -- Charting South 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 -- 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 / Nukhet Varlik -- Transposing knowledge: beyond translation in the medieval Islamic and Japanese medical literary traditions / M.A. Mujeeb Khan -- The nesting hypothesis for planetary distances and its persistence over the centuries and across cultures / Bernard R. Goldstein and Giora Hon -- Maragha 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Patrick Manning & Abigail Owen ; with a foreword by Charles Burnett. |
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"This wide-ranging volume makes clear that the transfer of scientific knowledge and the global implications of scientific investigation are a crucial aspect of world and global history."--J. Werner, Bentley School "Knowledge in Translation is a remarkable collection of essays that highlights the multidirectional and polycentric nature of the transfer of scientific knowledge around the globe, with an expansive chronology that incorporates medieval as well as early modern exchanges across communities. This book thus examines knowledge and practices that crossed boundaries, and does so itself." --Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Editor, Journal of Global History "The editors of this volume have embarked on a very novel approach to one of the most fascinating periods of human history, 1000-1800 CE. By bringing together profound research on diverse topics that cross cultures, languages, and systems of faith in the Euro-Asian region--and by framing the history of science within the scope of global history--Knowledge in Translation succeeds in abolishing borders of all kinds."--George Saliba, Columbia University Read more...


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- Science -- Translating -- History.
- Scientific literature -- Translations -- History and criticism.
- Communication in science -- History.
- Translating and interpreting -- History.
- Diffusion of innovations -- History.
- Translating.
- Science -- history.
- Science in Literature -- history.
- Information Dissemination -- history.
- Diffusion of Innovation.
- History, Medieval.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, 18th Century.
- Science -- Translating.
- Diffusion of innovations.
- Communication in science.
- Translating and interpreting.
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- Wissenschaftskommunikation
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