Why Translate Science?: Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the Historical West Bactria to the Atlantic

‎Contents
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Chapter 1. Introduction (Gutas)
‎Chapter 2. Latin Translations of Greek Science and Philosophy: Some Relevant Passages (Mundt and Cohen)
‎Chapter 3. Translations from Greek into Middle Persian as Repatriated Knowledge (Zakeri)
‎Chapter 4. Why the Syrians Translated Greek Philosophy and Science (King)
‎Chapter 5. Why Do We Translate? Arabic Sources on Translation (Vagelpohl and Sánchez)
‎Chapter 6. The Nabatean Agriculture by Ibn Waḥšiyya, a Pseudo-Translation by a Pseudo-Translator: The Topos of Translation in Occult Sciences (Toral)
‎Chapter 7. Translations into Greek in the Byzantine Period (Kaldellis)
‎Chapter 8. The Statements of Medieval Latin Translators on Why and How They Translate Works on Science and Philosophy from Arabic (Burnett)
‎Chapter 9. Latin Translators from Greek in the Twelfth Century on Why and How They Translate (Angold and Burnett)
‎Chapter 10. Why Did Latin Translators Translate from the Greek in the Thirteenth Century and Later? (Beullens)
‎Chapter 11. Why Translate? Views From Within Judaism: Egodocuments by Translators from Arabic and Latin into Hebrew (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries) (Freudenthal)
‎Chapter 12. Renaissance Scholars on Why They Translate Scientific and Philosophical Works from Arabic into Latin (Hasse)
‎Index of Personal Names
‎Index of Subjects and Placenames
‎Index of Sources