Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Section A. Constructing and disseminating knowledge in–through translation
6. Chapter 1. Reading scientific translations in the first half of sixteenth-century Europe through Hernando Colón’s library 17
7. Chapter 2. Jérôme Lalande, Giuseppe Toaldo and the translation of astronomical works for a wider public in the 1700s 41
8. Chapter 3. Travelling knowledge in nineteenth-century science 59
9. Chapter 4. Translating the Iron Curtain 81
10. Section B. Linguistic strategies and visual tools in the translation of knowledge
11. Chapter 5. Paratexts in sixteenth-century editions and translations of Maciej z Miechowa’s Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis 105
12. Chapter 6. The Latin translation of Philosophical Transactions (1671–1681) 123
13. Chapter 7. Knowledge in series 145
14. Chapter 8. Knowledge transfer in the Soviet Union from the perspective of visual culture 169
15. Section C. Institutions and translation policies
16. Chapter 9. The Leviathan and the woods 189
17. Chapter 10. Energetic visions 209
18. Chapter 11. Science writing in Hindi in colonial India 229
19. Chapter 12. An (imagined) community 249
20. Index 269