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Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece
Translating Ancient Scientific Texts
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Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece
Translating Ancient Scientific Texts
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Introduction: Translating ancient scientific texts
- Gegenstand und Methode: Sprachliche Erkenntnistechniken in der keilschriftlichen Ãœberlieferung Mesopotamiens
- Das Verhältnis von medizinischer Prognose zur religiösen Divinatorik/Mantik in Griechenland
- Präzision in der Prognose oder: Divination als Wissenschaft
- Zur Rolle des Fachwortschatzes in der Naturalis historia des Älteren Plinius
- Translating the Phainomenaacross genre, language and culture
- Translating the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars
- Von Impotenz und Migräne – eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Übersetzungen des Papyrus Ebers
- Rechts oder links – wörtlich oder dem Sinn nach?
- The lamp and the mirror, or: Some comments on the ancient understanding of Mesopotamian medical manuscripts
- Zur Neuedition des hieratisch-demotischen Papyrus Wien D 6257 aus römischer Zeit
- A recipe for a headache: Translating and interpreting ancient Greek and Roman remedies
- Ancient Egyptian star tables: A reinterpretation of their fundamental structure
- Methods for understanding and reconstructing Babylonian predicting rules
- Problems in translating ancient Greek astrological texts
- From the cave into reality: Mathematics and cultures
- Translating rational-practice texts
- How to transfer the conceptual structure of Old Babylonian mathematics: Solutions and inherent problems. With an Italian parallel
- Backmatter