Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
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, tr...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1637832025-08-05T05:08:17Z Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries Cook, Harold J. Dupré, Sven History / General thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History 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. 2025-08-05T05:08:16Z 2025-08-05T05:08:16Z 2025-08-04T14:24:26Z 2013 book ONIX_20250804T161608_9783643902467_8 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104964 9783643902467 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163783 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104964/1/9783643902467.pdf LIT Verlag GmbH & Co. KG 90021da5-08df-430d-bf1a-58b872e03b7a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 969f21b5-ac00-4517-9de2-44973eec6874 9783643902467 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Kollektion FID Benelux / Collection FID Benelux [...] Knowledge Unlatched open access |
| spellingShingle | History / General thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries |
| title | Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries |
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