Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece
Subtitle: translating ancient scientific texts
By: edited by Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening
Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde -- Bd. 286
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9783110229929; 9783110229936
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; History and criticism; Sources; Translating and interpreting; Philosophy; Translating; Scientific literature; Ancient Science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text in English and German.
Table of contents: title: section 1. Language as a feature of a scientific discipline; title: Gegenstand und Methode : sprachliche Erkenntnistechniken in der keilschriftlichen Überlieferung Mesopotamiens / Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum; title: Das Verhältnis von medizinischer Prognose zur religiösen Divinatorik/Mantik in Griechenland / Jochen Althoff; title: Präzision in der Prognose, oder, Divination als Wissenschaft / Joachim-Friedrich Quack; title: Zur Rolle des Fachwortschatzes in der Naturalis Historia des Älteren Plinius / Thorsten Fögen; title: section 2. Translation of ancient scholars; title: Translating the Phainomena across genre, language, and culture / Liba Taub; title: Translating the fundamentals of the course of the stars / Alexandra von Lieven; title: section 3. Problems of translating ancient medical texts and possible solutions; title: Von Impotenz und Migräne : eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Übersetzungen des Papyrus Ebers / Tanja Pommerening; title: Zum Problem der kulturellen Gebundenheit bei der Übersetzung von medizinischen Keilschrifttexten / Nils P. Heessel; title: The lamp and the mirror, or, Some comments on the ancient understanding of Mesopotamian medical manuscripts / Martin Worthington; title: Zur Neuedition des hieratisch-demotischen Papyrus Wien D 6257 aus römischer Zeit / Friedhelm Hoffmann; title: A recipe for a headache : translating and interpreting ancient Greek and Roman remedies / Laurence M. V. Totelin; title: section 4. Problems and methods in translating astronomical-astrological text; title: Ancient Egyptian star tables : a reinterpretation of their fundamental structure / Leo Depuydt; title: Methods for understanding and reconstructing Babylonian predicting rules / Lis Brack-Bernsen; title: Problems in translating ancient Greek astrological texts / Stephan Heilen; title: section 5. Ways to express ancient mathematical concepts in modern language; title: From the cave into reality : mathematics and cultures / Annette Imhausen; title: Translating rational-practice texts / Jim Ritter; title: How to transfer the conceptual structure of Old Babylonian mathematics : solutions and inherent problems : with an Italian parallel / Jens Høyrup.