Translating early modern science

Translating Early Modern Science
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Translators and Translations of Early Modern Science
Part 1: Translating Networks of Knowledge
	1 Translation in the Circle of Robert Hooke
	2 Networks and Translation within the Republic of Letters: The Case of Theodore Haak (1605–1690)
	3 What Difference does a Translation Make? The Traité des vernis (1723) in the Career of Charles Dufay
	4 ‘Ordinary Skill in Cutts’: Visual Translation in Early Modern Learned Journals
Part 2: Translating Practical Knowledge
	5 ‘As the Author Intended’: Transformations of the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Simon Stevin (1548–1620)
	6 Bringing Euclid into the Mines: Classical Sources and Vernacular Knowledge in the Development of Subterranean Geometry
	7 Image, Word and Translation in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Quaestiones Mechanicae
	8 ‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’: Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print
Part 3: Translating Philosophical Knowledge
	9 Taming Epicurus: Gassendi, Charleton, and the Translation of Epicurus’ Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
	10 Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Copernican Rhetoric
	11 ‘Now Brought before You in English Habit’: An Early Modern Translation of Galileo into English
	12 Language as ‘Universal Truchman’: Translating the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century
Index Nominum