Historians of Science Translating the History of Science
Blur versus Grit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3329080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jing Tsu (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 789-795 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/701296 |
| OpenAlex | W2910943293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Every discipline of inquiry takes certain tasks for granted. They are not seen as the big questions that inspire and guide the field, even though they have been the practices that shape and imprint its deepest presuppositions. The question of translation, having been the focus of other humanist disciplines for decades, has come to the history of science only as of late. This essay, as a final review of the issues raised in a Focus section entitled “Historians of Science Translating the History of Science,” discusses the underlying struggle between elegant renditions and literal accuracy and opens up larger and comparative questions about the reflexive capacity of a discipline, its conditions for knowledge, and the historical mishaps and shared labor that can connect or thwart the process beyond local origins. The essay offers comparative cases in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China as a counterpoint, where the Western history of science became world knowledge through unintended readership
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Focus (optics · History of science · Humanism · Literature · Political science · Presupposition · Reflexivity · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |