Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries

Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
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Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages : 473
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ISBN-10 : 9783643902467
ISBN-13 : 3643902468
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Book Synopsis Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries by : Harold John Cook

Download or read book Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries written by Harold John Cook and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 multilingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 3)


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