Knowledge in translation : global patterns of scientific exchange, 1000-1800 CE / edited by Patrick Manning & Abigail Owen ; with a foreword by Charles Burnett.
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : Knowledge in translation / Patrick Manning
- Part I. Mapping the Earth
- The geographical concept of the Catalan mappamundi / Katrin Kogman-Appel
- Interpretation, intention, and impact : Andalusi Arab and Norman Sicilian examples of Islamo-Christian cartographic translation / Karen Pinto
- Mountains of the moon, lakes in the sun, and Sinus Gangeticus / Rila Mukherjee
- The global and the maritime : divergent paradigms for understanding the role of translation in the emergence of early modern science / Robert Batchelor
- Part II. Constructing society
- Charting China in the thirteenth-century world : the first English translation of Zhu fan zhi and its recipients in China in the 1930s / Huei-ying kuo
- The case of Bingata : trafficking textile art and technique across the East China Sea / BuYun Chen
- Mapping the tracks of Yu : Yellow River statecraft as science and technology, 1200-1600 / Ruth Mostern
- Part III. Advancing health and welfare
- Animal remedies in space and time : the case of the nail of the great beast / Irina Podgorny
- Translating heaven : divination and political authority under the Yuan Dynasty / Francesca Fiaschetti
- Between local and universal : translating knowledge in early modern Ottoman plague treatises / Nükhet Varlık
- Transposing knowledge : beyond translation in the medieval Islamic and Japanese medical literary traditions / M.A. Mujeeb Khan
- Part IV. Charting the skies
- The nesting hypothesis for planetary distances and its persistence over the centuries and across cultures / Bernard R. Goldstein and Giora Hon
- Marāgha Observatory : a star in the constellation of Eurasian scientific translation / Roxann Prazniak-- Reading between the lines : attitudes toward Arabic astrology in the Latin marginalia of Alcabitius's Introductorius ad magisterium iudiciorum astrorum / Margaret Gaida
- The fourteenth-century transformation in China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy / Dror Weil
- Celestial navigation : the first translational science / Pat Seed.