Science in Translation
Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time
333 pages, 17 halftones, 5 line drawings 6 x 9
©
2000
Cloth $35.00
ISBN: 9780226534800
Published June 2000
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9780226534817
Published May 2002
In this innovative work, Scott L. Montgomery explores the diverse roles that translation has played in the development of science from antiquity to the present—from the Arabic translations of Greek and Latin texts whose reintroduction to Europe was crucial to the Renaissance, to the origin and evolution of modern science in Japan.
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