GERMAN

Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2010
ISBN
3110229927, 9783110229929
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2616393 bytes)
Series
Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde 344
Edition
1
Pages
451\451
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Medicine, astronomy, dealing with numbers - even the cultures of the ""pre-modern"" world offer a rich spectrum of scientific texts. But how are they best translated? Is it sufficient to translate the sources into modern scientific language, and thereby, above all, to identify their deficits? Or would it be better to adopt the perspective of the sources themselves, strange as they are, only for them not to be properly understood by modern readers? Renowned representatives of various disciplines and traditions present a controversial and constructive discussion of these problems.

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