Overview
- Opens a history of critical editions and translations for scientific works and documents
- Shows new points of view on the history of critical editions and the history of ancient science
- Unique case studies on the history of critical editions of Mesopotamian, Chinese, Greek and Sanskrit texts
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 69)
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Keywords
- History of critical edition
- History of translation
- History of ancient mathematics
- History of ancient medicine
- History of ancient literature
- History of Science
- Philosophy of Science
- Ancient astronomy
About this book
This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. Contributions analyze how, through time, the perception of what a text was may have changed, and influenced how scholarly texts were made accessible. The second section looks at the historical, political and social contexts within which editions and translations of ancient scientific texts were produced. Finally, the last two parts examine the specificities of editions and translations that bore on scholarly documents. Not only is there a focus on how the elements specific to scientific texts—such as diagrams and numbers—were treated, but case studies analyzing the specific work carried out to edit mathematical and astronomical texts of the past are also offered to the reader. The scholarship displayed in this work lays the foundation for further studies on the history of critical editions and raises questions to those who make scholarly translations and critical editions today.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Agathe Keller is senior research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), within the SPHere (Science, Philosophy, History) research lab. Her work centers on the history of mathematics as found in Sanskrit sources, with a special focus on commentaries. She also studies the historiography of science in south Asia from the late 18th century to contemporary political discourses on traditional science in India. She has recently co-edited with K. Chemla and C. Proust, Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world. (Springer, 2022).
Karine Chemla, Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), research group SPHERE (Université Paris Cité & CNRS). Her work focuses, from a historical anthropology viewpoint, on the relationship between mathematics and the various cultures in the context of which it is practiced. Chemla co-edited, with Glenn Most, Mathematical Commentaries in theAncient World: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2022); and, with A. Keller and C. Proust, Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world. (Springer, 2022).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World
Book Subtitle: Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History
Editors: Agathe Keller, Karine Chemla
Series Title: Archimedes
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49616-5Due: 09 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49619-6Due: 09 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49617-2Due: 09 June 2024
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 585
Number of Illustrations: 141 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour