In:Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation
Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman and Katharina Kühn
[Benjamins Translation Library 154] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 29 October 2020
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsvii
Introduction1
Rocío G. Sumillera
Jan Surman
Katharina Kühn
Section A.Constructing and disseminating knowledge in–through translation: Agents
Chapter 1.Reading scientific translations in the first half of sixteenth-century Europe
through Hernando Colón’s library17
Rocío G. Sumillera
Chapter 2.Jérôme Lalande, Giuseppe Toaldo and the translation of astronomical works for a
wider public in the 1700s41
Simon Dagenais
Chapter 3.Travelling knowledge in nineteenth-century science: Jacob Moleschott and materialism in translation59
Laura Meneghello
Chapter 4.Translating the Iron Curtain: A translational perspective on the epistemic dimension of Radio Free
Europe81
Simon Ottersbach
Section B.Linguistic strategies and visual tools in the translation of knowledge
Chapter 5.Paratexts in sixteenth-century editions and translations of Maciej z Miechowa’s
Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis
105
Saskia Metan
Chapter 6.The Latin translation of Philosophical Transactions
(1671–1681)123
Pablo Toribio
Chapter 7.Knowledge in series: Central European Positivisms and their media, 1860–1900145
Jan Surman
Chapter 8.Knowledge transfer in the Soviet Union from the perspective of visual
culture169
Philipp Hofeneder
Section C.Institutions and translation policies: The politics of translation
Chapter 9.The Leviathan and the woods: Translating forestry policies under Peter I of Russia189
Maria Avxentevskaya
Chapter 10.Energetic visions: Translating science in the German Monist movement, 1900–1915209
Christoffer Leber
Chapter 11.Science writing in Hindi in colonial India: A critical view of the motivations229
Sandipan Baksi
Chapter 12.An (imagined) community: The Translation Project in the Social Sciences and its impact
on the scientific community in post-Soviet Russia249
Irina Savelieva
Index269
