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Description: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 multi-lingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (3) (Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge). To get started finding Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (3) (Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 multi-lingualism and became one of the chief sites for translation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (3) (Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge). To get started finding Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries (3) (Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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