Scott L. Montgomery. Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Exploring the transmission of science across The transmission of scientific knowledge is a complex process and more than often the result of a multi-cultural construction of impressions of thought. Scientists today often construct their ideas on theories that were formulated many centuries ago. They seldom think of the origins of those ideas. Moreover, they seldom consider the fact that what they have made their own in terms of their discipline are by no means the original languages in which the thoughts were formulated. Translation, the act “of rendering the words of one language into...
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