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Translating Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries (eBook, ePUB)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Redaktion: Martin, Alison E; Pickford, Susan

Beschreibung

This book explores translation's role in shaping the knowledge-sharing processes that were and are seminal to scientific endeavour. It considers the mechanisms by which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European science writing travelled within and beyond its home continent and non-European science was taken up in a colonial context.

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Autor

Alison E. Martin is Professor of British Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Campus Germersheim). She has published extensively on translation studies, with a particular focus on travel literature, scientific writing, and gender. Her most recent monograph, Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018), explores the role played by Humboldt's female translators in the transmission of scientific knowledge to a general audience in the nineteenth century. She is co-editor of The Handbook of Women and Science since 1660 (2022). Susan Pickford is Head of the English Unit at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva. She has published widely on translation history, sociology, and book history, and recently completed a monograph on professional translators in nineteenth-century France. She has contributed articles on the early geologist Etheldred Benett to the 2015 special issue of the Journal of Literature and Science, 'Ingenious Minds: British Women as Facilitators of Scientific Knowledge Exchange, 1750-1900' and to the Women in the History of Science Source Book (2023).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040361849
• Artikelnr.: 74273253