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Translating Early Modern Science
Author | : Sietske Fransen,Niall Hodson,Karl A.E. Enenkel |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004349261 |
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Translating Early Modern Science explores the essential role translators played in a time when the scientific community used Latin and vernacular European languages side-by-side. This interdisciplinary volume illustrates how translators were mediators, agents, and interpreters of scientific knowledge.
Magic is No Magic
Author | : Jozef T. Devreese,Guido Vanden Berghe |
Publsiher | : WIT Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-11-12 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781845643911 |
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This book gives a comprehensive picture of the activities and the creative heritage of Simon Stevin, who made outstanding contributions to various fields of science, in particular physics and mathematics. Among the striking spectrum of his ingenious achievements, it is worth emphasizing that Simon Stevin is rightly considered as the father of the system of decimal fractions as it is in use today. Stevin also urged the universal use of decimal fractions along with standardization in coinage, measures and weights. This was a most visionary proposal. Stevin was the first since Archimedes to make a significant new contribution to statics and hydrostatics. He truly was "homo universalis." The impact of Stevin's work has been multilateral and worldwide, including literature (William Shakespeare), science (from Christian Huygens to Richard Feynman), politics (Thomas Jefferson) and many other fields. Thomas Jefferson, together with Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris, advocated introducing the decimal monetary units in the USA with reference to the book "De Thiende" by S. Stevin and in particular to the English translation of the book: "Disme: The Art of Tenths" by Robert Norton. In accordance with the title of this translation, the name of the first silver coin issued in the USA in 1792 was 'disme' (since 1837 the spelling changed to ('dime'). It was considered as a symbol of national independence of the USA.
Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
Author | : Harold John Cook,Sven Dupré |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783643902467 |
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Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. The story of the Tower of Babel is not only an etiology of the multitude of languages, it also suggests that a "confusion of tongues" confounds communication. However, as the contributors to this volume show, translation is always a transformation. This book examines how such transformations generate new knowledge and how translations helped to establish a new science. Situated at the border of the Germanic and Romance languages, home to a highly educated population, the Low Countries fostered multilingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 3)
The Little Street
Author | : Linda Stone-Ferrier |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300259117 |
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An interdisciplinary study of the central role that the neighborhood played in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and culture The neighborhood was a principal organizing structure of Dutch cities in the seventeenth century, and each had its own regulations, administrators, social networks, events, and diverse population of residents. Linda Stone-Ferrier argues that this sense of community contributed to the steady demand for pictures portraying aspects of this culture. These paintings, by such artists as Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch, reinforced the role and values of the neighborhood. Through close readings of such works--by Steen and De Hooch and, among others, Gerrit Dou, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Johannes Vermeer--Stone-Ferrier deftly considers social history, urban studies, anthropology, and women's studies in this penetrating exploration. Her new interpretations of seventeenth-century Dutch painting across genres--scenes of streets, domesticity, professions, and festivity--challenge existing paradigms in Dutch art history.
Early Modern Privacy
Author | : Michaël Green,Lars Cyril Nørgaard,Mette Birkedal Bruun |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2021-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004153073 |
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An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes.
Rethinking Stevin Stevin Rethinking
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789004432918 |
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This book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of ‘man of knowledge’. Stevin exemplifies a wider trend of polymathy in the early modern period. Polymaths played a crucial role in the transformation of European learning.
From Stevin to Spinoza
Author | : Wiep Van Bunge |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004122176 |
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This book attempts to provide a general interpretation of the history of philosophy in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. It concentrates on the heritage of Humanism, and on the rise of Dutch Cartesianism and Spinozism.
Urbanism Laboratory for Cities and Regions
Author | : Meta Berghauser Pont,Frank van der Hoeven,Jürgen Rosemann |
Publsiher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781586037994 |
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The conditions of urban development changes radically. Technological transformations such as automation and robotization in industrial production are leading to operating conditions for businesses and employees. Transportation and distribution systems are changing the scale and flow patterns of the urban agglomerations.