Why Translate Science?: Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the Historical West Bactria to the Atlantic

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A collection of documents from antiquity to the 16th century in the historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic), in the original languages with an English translation and introductory essays, about the motivations and purposes of translation from and into Greek, Syriac, Middle Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin, as given in the personal statements by the translators, scholars, and historians of each society. ‎Contents ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Chapter 1. Introduction (Gutas) ‎Chapter 2. Latin Translations of Greek Science and Philosophy: Some Relevant Passages (Mundt and Cohen) ‎Chapter 3. Translations from Greek into Middle Persian as Repatriated Knowledge (Zakeri) ‎Chapter 4. Why the Syrians Translated Greek Philosophy and Science (King) ‎Chapter 5. Why Do We Translate? Arabic Sources on Translation (Vagelpohl and Sánchez) ‎Chapter 6. The Nabatean Agriculture by Ibn Waḥšiyya, a Pseudo-Translation by a Pseudo-Translator: The Topos of Translation in Occult Sciences (Toral) ‎Chapter 7. Translations into Greek in the Byzantine Period (Kaldellis) ‎Chapter 8. The Statements of Medieval Latin Translators on Why and How They Translate Works on Science and Philosophy from Arabic (Burnett) ‎Chapter 9. Latin Translators from Greek in the Twelfth Century on Why and How They Translate (Angold and Burnett) ‎Chapter 10. Why Did Latin Translators Translate from the Greek in the Thirteenth Century and Later? (Beullens) ‎Chapter 11. Why Translate? Views From Within Judaism: Egodocuments by Translators from Arabic and Latin into Hebrew (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries) (Freudenthal) ‎Chapter 12. Renaissance Scholars on Why They Translate Scientific and Philosophical Works from Arabic into Latin (Hasse) ‎Index of Personal Names ‎Index of Subjects and Placenames ‎Index of Sources