Invited papers
Subtitle: Colloquium on the Transmission and Reception of Knowledge, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 5-7 May 1977
Contributors: Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: Culture diffusion; Culture diffusion in literature; Transmission of texts; Literature; Translations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1]. Academic practice about 500: Alexandria / L.G. Westerink; title: Near Eastern continuity in translation activity: Syriac and Arabic / F. Rosenthal; title: The problem posed / G. Makdisi; title: Avicenna, commentator of Aristotle: his commentary on the De anima and the Greek commentatorial tradition / D. Gutas; title: Translation and the progress of astronomy / D. Pingree; title: Motives and circumstances, methods and techniques of translation from Arabic to Latin / M.-T. D'Alverny; title: Le traductions latines médiévales de la physique d'Aristote / G. Verbeke & S. Van Riet; title: Richard de Fournival and the transmission of ancient and Arabic thought / R. & M. Rouse; title: The influence of Aristotle in the classification of theological sources / C. Lohr; title: Some observations on the Renaissance translations of Aristotle / C. Schmitt; title: The medieval traditions of Archimedes in the Renaissance / M. Clagett.; title: [v. 2]. Supplement. Les traductions de Jean Scot Érigène / E. Jeauneau; title: John Philoponus' commentary on De anima II, 5: one instance of conceptual change / J. Christensen.; title: The reorientation of Western thought, ca. 1100 A.D. / F. E. Cranz; title: The introduction of Arabic science to Montpellier / M. McVaugh; title: Transmission into use: the evidence of marginalia in the medieval Euclides Latinus / J. Murdoch.