Premodern experience of the natural world in translation. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil.
• Editors: Krause, Katja, 1980-; Auxent, Maria; Weil, Dror
• Contents: Table of Contents 　 Acknowledgments Prologue: Experiencing Wissenstransfer in the First Episteme: Mesopotamia Markham Geller Introduction: Making Sense of Nature in the Premodern World Katja Krause with Maria Auxent and Dror Weil Part I: Contextualizing Premodern Experience in Translation Experience and Knowledge among the Greeks: From the Presocratics to Avicenna Michael Chase Part II: Experience Terms Introduction. Experience Terms in Translation Steven Harvey Chapter 1: The Epistemic Authority of Translations: Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and John Buridan on Aristotle’s empeiria Katja Krause Chapter 2: Scientific Tasting: Flavors in the Investigation of Plants and Medicines from Aristotle to Albert the Great Marilena Panarelli Chapter 3: Making Sense of Ingenium : Translating Thought in Twelfth-Century Latin Texts on Cognition Jonathan Morton Chapter 4: The Encounter of Image and Xiang (象) in Matteo Ricci’s Western Art of Memory (Xiguo Jifa, 1596) Shixiang Jin Part III: Sciences and Scientific Norms Introduction: Experience, Translation, and the Norms of Science Jamie Cohen-Cole Chapter 5: Translating Method: Inference from Behavior to Anatomy in Avicenna’s Zoology Tommaso Alpina Chapter 6: Translating from One Domain to Another: Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islamic Theology (kalām ) Hannah C. Erlwein Chapter 7: Can the Results of Experience Be the Premises of Demonstrations? Four Hundred Years of Debate on a Single Line of Maimonides’s Treatise on the Art of Logic Yehuda Halper Chapter 8: The Weight of Qualities: Quantifying Temperament in Early Modern British Mathematical Medicine Julia Reed Part IV: Verbal and Visual Systems Introduction: Translation in Practice: Visualizing Experience Katharine Park Chapter 9: Translating Alchemical Practice into Symbols: Two Cases from Codex Marcianus graecus 299 Vincenzo Carlotta Chapter 10: Translating Medical Experience in Tables: The Case of Eleventh-Century Arabic TaqwÄ«m Works Dror Weil Chapter 11: From Textual to Visual: Translation and Enhancement of Arabic Experience in the New Book Genre Tacuina sanitatis of Giangaleazzo Visconti (c. 1390) Dominic Olariu Chapter 12: The Pictorial Idioms of Nature: Image Making as Phytographic Translation in Early Modern Northern Europe Jaya Remond Part V: Expertise in Translation Introduction: Expertise in Translation Sven Dupré Chapter 13: The Translator’s Cut: Cultural Experience and Philosophical Narration in the Early Latin Translations of Avicenna Amos Bertolacci Chapter 14: Toledan Translators, Roger Bacon, and the Dynamic Shades of Experience Nicola Polloni Chapter 15: Table Talk Florence Hsia Chapter 16: The Experience of the Translator: Richard Eden and A Treatyse of the Newe India 　(1553) Maria Auxent 　 Epilogue: Windows, Mirrors, and Beads Lorraine Daston List of Contributors List of Contributors Tommaso Alpina teaches at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. He is the author of Subject, Definition, Activity: Framing Avicenna’s Science of the Soul (2021). Maria Auxent is a historian and philosopher of science, specializing in the history of scientific language and communication. She works at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Amos Bertolacci is professor of the history of medieval philosophy at the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy. He has published widely on the influence of Avicenna’s and Averroes’s metaphysics in the Latin Middle Ages. Vincenzo Carlotta, based at Bologna University, works on the history of ancient and Byzantine alchemy. He is currently finishing the edition and translation　The Alchemical Teachings of Cleopatra . Michael Chase (CNRS Centre Jean Pépin-UMR　8230-ENS-PSL, Paris-Villejuif) is currently working on editions of Avicenna, Notes on the Theology of Aristotle, and the Arabic translation of Alexander of Aphrodisias, On the Intellect . Jamie Cohen-Cole is associate professor of American studies at George Washington University.　His current book project examines the cultural history of developmental psychology and its study of childhood.　 Lorraine Daston is Director Emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Her most recent book is　Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (2022). Sven Dupré is Director of the Research Institute for History and Art History and professor of history of art, science, and technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam.　 Hannah C. Erlwein is a postdoctoral fellow in the research group "Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She holds a PhD in Islamic intellectual history. Markham Geller directs the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London. He taught at the Freie Universität Berlin from 2010 to 2018 and is a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Yehuda Halper, of the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University, is PI of the Israel Science Foundation project "Hebrew Traditions of Aristotelian Dialectics" and author of Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato (2021). Steven Harvey is professor emeritus of philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and president of the SIEPM’s Commission for Jewish Philosophy. He has published extensively on medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy.　 ; Florence Hsia is　a historian of science at the University of　Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently working on the history of sinology in early modern Europe. Shixiang Jin is associate professor of history of science at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He works on the Aristotelian theory of perception and its historical transformation, and the comparative study of East-West epistemology. Katja Krause, a historian of philosophy and science specializing in medieval thought, teaches at the Technische Universität Berlin and leads the research group "Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Jonathan Morton is associate professor in the French and Italian Department at Tulane University, New Orleans. His current book project is Engines of Invention: Thinking Machines in the High Middle Ages . Dom
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 418.020903; Translating and interpreting -- History; Science -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000620238; 9781000620184; 9781003258704
• Related ISBNs: 9781032193359
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