Translating Early Modern Science

Translating Early Modern Science explores the essential role translators played in a time when the scientific community used Latin and vernacular European languages side-by-side. This interdisciplinary volume illustrates how translators were mediators, agents, and interpreters of scientific knowledge.

About the author

SIETSKE FRANSEN, Ph.D. (2014), the Warburg Institute, University of London, is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. She has published on language and translation in connection to early modern science and currently works on visual organization of knowledge.

NIALL HODSON is a cultural historian whose current research focuses on translation at the early modern Royal Society and the role of its Secretary, Henry Oldenburg, as a translator and intermediary in the Republic of Letters. He received his M.A. from the Warburg Institute, and has since undertaken research at Durham University and held fellowships at the Edward Worth Library and Utrecht University.

KARL A.E. ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.

Product details

• Authors: Karl A. E. Enenkel, Sietske Fransen, Niall Hodson
• Assisted by: Karl A E Enenkel (Editor), Sietske Fransen (Editor), Niall Hodson (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2017
• EAN: 9789004349254
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34925-4
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 709 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)