Introduction
Science and Practices of Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4175360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sven Dupre (0000-0002-1110-1654, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 302-307 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| 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 | 10.1086/698234 |
| OpenAlex | W2805154671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 16 |
Historically speaking, scientists have lived and worked in a multilingual world. Given that, in such a world, translation is simply part of (scientific) life, it is all the more remarkable that practices of translation in science have received less attention from historians of science than one might expect. A focus on translation allows historians of science to scrutinize the changes and transformations of scientific knowledge in motion. Instead of presuming that processes of translation are betrayals of the original, and thus asking about the “fidelity” of a translator or the “faithfulness” of a translation, the contributions to this Focus section see those processes as productive of knowledge, part and parcel of the history of science. This Focus section brings together a wide variety of languages and practices of translation in different places and times, from the Ottoman Empire to Japan and from antiquity to the nineteenth century
Epistemology · Fidelity · Focus (optics · History of science · Linguistics · Section (typography · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Translation (biology · Translation studies · Variety (cybernetics · Artificial Intelligence · Chemistry · Computer Science · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Philosophy
Scholarly authors as self-translators
Smallpox inoculation
Revitalizing Ayurveda
Coining a Discipline
The Oceans of Sui (髓海) inclusive extra-epistemic objects in biomedical vernacular
Deconstructing Glass and Building up Shards at the Early Royal Society
Bioprospecting Breadfruit
New World Drugs and the Archive of Practice
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |