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Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase. The situation of the respective translators at these two levels was fundamentally different: whereas the former could rely on a long tradition of scientific discourse, the latter had the enormous responsibility of actually developing a scientific vocabulary. The contributions in the present volume investigate both levels, greatly illuminating the emergence of the scientific terminology and concepts that became so fundamental in early modern intellectual discourse. The scientific disciplines covered in the book include, among others, medicine, biology, astronomy, and physics.
- José LAMBERT
Medieval Translations and Translation Studies: some preliminary
considerations - Translations into Latin
- Charles BURNETT
Scientific Translations from Arabic: The Question of Revision - Carla DI MARTINO
Le bonheur perdu: Note sur sa traduction latine médiévale du Talkhîs Kitâb al-Ìiss wa-l-maÌsûs (Epitome du Livre du sens et du sensible) d’Averroès - Michelle REICHERT
Hermann of Dalmatia and Robert of Ketton: Two Twelfth-Century Translators in the Ebro Valley - José Manuel FRADEJAS RUEDA
shaaniqat al-balansiyya or shaaniqat al-baàriyya: On the Arabic Text and the Latin Translations of the Calendar of Cordova - Ilya DINES
The Textual and Pictorial Metamorphoses of the Animal called Chyrogrillius - Outi MERISALO & Päivi PAHTA
Tracing the Trail of Transmission: The pseudo-Galenic De spermate in Latin - Pieter BEULLENS
Aristotle, his Translators, and the Formation of Ichthyologic Nomenclature - Iolanda VENTURA
Translating, Commenting, Re-translating: Some Considerations on the Latin Translations of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and their Readers - Craig MARTIN
Scientific Terminology and the Effects of Humanism: Renaissance Translations of Meteorologica IV and the Commentary Tradition - Translations into the Vernacular
- Joëlle DUCOS
Traduire la science en langue vernaculaire: du texte au mot - Alessandro VITALE BROVARONE
Traduire des mots et transporter des choses: quelques réflexions sur la littérature savante et l’expérience marchande dans la formation du lexique - Laurence MOULINIER-BROGI
L’uroscopie en vulgaire dans l’Occident médiéval: un tour d’horizon - Silvia TONIATO
Le lexique mathématique au moyen âge entre latin et langues vernaculaires: quelques problèmes posés par les traductions - Hiltrud GERNER
La traduction française de quelques termes d’astronomie du Compendium theologicae veritatis (environ 1265) dans Le Somme abregiet de theologie (1481) - Tony HUNT
The Old French Translation of the ‘Four Masters Gloss’ in Wellcome MS 546 - Sara MARRUNCHEDDU
La traduction française du Moamin dans ses rapports avec la version latine de Théodore d’Antioche - An SMETS & Magali TOULAN
Les accessoires des faucons et des fauconniers dans les traductions françaises du De arte venandi cum avibus de Frédéric II et du De falconibus d’Albert le Grand - Géraldine VEYSSEYRE
Le Livre des proprietés des choses de Jean Corbechon (livre VI),ou la vulgarisation d’une encyclopédie latine - Francesco CAPACCIONI
Infiniti ingegni da’ pi๠non saputi: la prima traduzione italiana dei Ruralia Commoda di Pietro de’ Crescenzi (Libro X) - Marianne ELSAKKERS
The Early Medieval Latin and Vernacular Vocabulary of Abotion and Embryology - Erwin HUIZENGA
Unintended Signatures: Middle Dutch Translators of Surgical Works - Orlanda S.H. LIE
Women’s Medicine in Middle Dutch
Een nuttige bundel voor wie zich op een of andere wijze bezighoudt met de studie en/of editie van vertalingen, in het bijzonder middeleeuwse.
Jules Janssens, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 72 (2010), 1
In fine, le recueil dirigé par Michèle Goyens, Pieter de Leemans et An Smets est d'une grande rigueur scientifique et d'un intérêt incontournable, tant dans la variété de ses exemples que dans la nature exemplaire des contributions qui le parcourent. à€ ce titre, il est une référence et un réel apport dans l'étude des traductions au Moyen à‚ge.
Olivier Bertrand, Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes [En ligne], 2008, mis en ligne le 26 juin 2011. http://crm.revues.org/12292
Een nuttige bundel voor wie zich op een of andere wijze bezighoudt met de studie en/of editie van vertalingen, in het bijzonder middeleeuwse.
Jules Janssens, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 72 (2010), 1
In fine, le recueil dirigé par Michèle Goyens, Pieter de Leemans et An Smets est d'une grande rigueur scientifique et d'un intérêt incontournable, tant dans la variété de ses exemples que dans la nature exemplaire des contributions qui le parcourent. à€ ce titre, il est une référence et un réel apport dans l'étude des traductions au Moyen à‚ge.
Olivier Bertrand, Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes [En ligne], 2008, mis en ligne le 26 juin 2011. http://crm.revues.org/12292
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Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase. The situation of the respective translators at these two levels was fundamentally different: whereas the former could rely on a long tradition of scientific discourse, the latter had the enormous responsibility of actually developing a scientific vocabulary. The contributions in the present volume investigate both levels, greatly illuminating the emergence of the scientific terminology and concepts that became so fundamental in early modern intellectual discourse. The scientific disciplines covered in the book include, among others, medicine, biology, astronomy, and physics.
Who wrote "Science Translated"?
"Science Translated" was written by Michele Goyens and Pieter De Leemans.
Pieter De Leemans is professor at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy (KU Leuven) and academic secretary of the Aristotles Latinus. - Hoger Instituut van Wijsbegeerte, KU Leuven
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Yes, "Science Translated" is part of the "Mediaevalia Lovaniensia" series.
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- José LAMBERT
Medieval Translations and Translation Studies: some preliminary
considerations - Translations into Latin
- Charles BURNETT
Scientific Translations from Arabic: The Question of Revision - Carla DI MARTINO
Le bonheur perdu: Note sur sa traduction latine médiévale du Talkhîs Kitâb al-Ìiss wa-l-maÌsûs (Epitome du Livre du sens et du sensible) d'Averroès - Michelle REICHERT
Hermann of Dalmatia and Robert of Ketton: Two Twelfth-Century Translators in the Ebro Valley - José Manuel FRADEJAS RUEDA
shaaniqat al-balansiyya or shaaniqat al-baàriyya: On the Arabic Text and the Latin Translations of the Calendar of Cordova - Ilya DINES
The Textual and Pictorial Metamorphoses of the Animal called Chyrogrillius - Outi MERISALO & Päivi PAHTA
Tracing the Trail of Transmission: The pseudo-Galenic De spermate in Latin - Pieter BEULLENS
Aristotle, his Translators, and the Formation of Ichthyologic Nomenclature - Iolanda VENTURA
Translating, Commenting, Re-translating: Some Considerations on the Latin Translations of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and their Readers - Craig MARTIN
Scientific Terminology and the Effects of Humanism: Renaissance Translations of Meteorologica IV and the Commentary Tradition - Translations into the Vernacular
- Joëlle DUCOS
Traduire la science en langue vernaculaire: du texte au mot - Alessandro VITALE BROVARONE
Traduire des mots et transporter des choses: quelques réflexions sur la littérature savante et l'expérience marchande dans la formation du lexique - Laurence MOULINIER-BROGI
L'uroscopie en vulgaire dans l'Occident médiéval: un tour d'horizon - Silvia TONIATO
Le lexique mathématique au moyen âge entre latin et langues vernaculaires: quelques problèmes posés par les traductions - Hiltrud GERNER
La traduction française de quelques termes d'astronomie du Compendium theologicae veritatis (environ 1265) dans Le Somme abregiet de theologie (1481) - Tony HUNT
The Old French Translation of the 'Four Masters Gloss' in Wellcome MS 546 - Sara MARRUNCHEDDU
La traduction française du Moamin dans ses rapports avec la version latine de Théodore d'Antioche - An SMETS & Magali TOULAN
Les accessoires des faucons et des fauconniers dans les traductions françaises du De arte venandi cum avibus de Frédéric II et du De falconibus d'Albert le Grand - Géraldine VEYSSEYRE
Le Livre des proprietés des choses de Jean Corbechon (livre VI),ou la vulgarisation d'une encyclopédie latine - Francesco CAPACCIONI
Infiniti ingegni da' pi๠non saputi: la prima traduzione italiana dei Ruralia Commoda di Pietro de' Crescenzi (Libro X) - Marianne ELSAKKERS
The Early Medieval Latin and Vernacular Vocabulary of Abotion and Embryology - Erwin HUIZENGA
Unintended Signatures: Middle Dutch Translators of Surgical Works - Orlanda S.H. LIE
Women's Medicine in Middle Dutch
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