Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries / / edited by Harold J. Cook and Sven Dupré.

• Superior document: Low countries studies on the circulation of natural knowledge ; Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Dupré, Sven, 1975-; Cook, Harold John,
• Place / Publishing House: Zurich : : LIT Verlag,, 2013.; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Low countries studies on the circulation of natural knowledge ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ii, 466 pages) :; illustrations.

Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. The story of the Tower of Babel is not only an etiology of the multitude of languages, it also suggests that a "confusion of tongues" confounds communication. However, as the contributors to this volume show, translation is always a transformation. This book examines how such transformations generate new knowledge and how translations helped to establish a new science. Situated at the border of the Germanic and Romance languages, home to a highly educated population, the Low Countries fostered multi-lingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation.

Table of Contents

Language and Rules of Translation -- Virtues and Vices Ascribed to the Dutch Language / Toon van Hal -- The Circulation of Historical and Political Knowledge between Britain and the Netherlands, 1600-1800: The Place of Translations / Peter Burke -- Print and Translation -- Reading about New World Nature in the Low Countries: The Editions of Cronicas De Indias, 1493-1600 / Jose Pardo-Tomas -- The Limits of Language and the Challenges of Exotica: Pictures, Words, and Global Knowledge in Early Modern Europe / Benjamin Schmidt -- Entrepreneurs of Translation: Latin and the Vernacular in the Editorial Strategy of the De Bry Publishing House / Michiel van Groesen -- Multilinguism, Naming and the Invention of Vocabulary -- Names of Naturalia in the Early Modern Period: Between the Vernacular and Latin, Identification and Classification / Florike Egmond -- Translating 'Schilderspraeke': Painters' Terminology in the Dutch Edition of Franciscus Junius's The Painting of the Ancients (1637-1641) / Thijs Weststeijn -- Italian Artistic Terms in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck / Paul Taylor -- Inventing the Vocabulary of Antique Architecture. The Early Translators and Interpreters of Renaissance Architectural Treatises in the Low Countries / Krista de Jonge -- Authorship and the Identity of Translators -- Making 'The Good Old Man' Speak English: The Reception of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Letters at the Royal Society, 1673-1723 / Felicity Henderson -- Translating Astronomy in Dutch, Latin and Frisian. Adriaan Metius's Textbooks on Mathematics in the Early Seventeenth Century / Arjen Dijkstra -- A Translation Translated: The Educator as Translator in the Works of the Dutch Mathematics Master Abraham de Graaf / Tim Nicolaije -- Translation and Transformation of Knowledge -- Translating Facts: From Stories to Observations in the Work of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Translators of Spanish Books / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- Transcriptions and Descriptions of Exotic Fauna in Barlaeus's Rerum per Octennium and de Laet's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae / Britt Dams -- The Role of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) as Translator in the Emergence of a Taxonomic Terminology in Botany / Philippe Selosse -- Stevin in Chinese: Aspects of the Transformation of Early Modern European Science in its Transfer to China / Matthias Schemmel.