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English | May 28, 2025 | ISBN: 1032972300 | 258 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
This book explores the role of translation in shaping the knowledge-sharing processes that were and are seminal to scientific endeavour. It considers the mechanisms by which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European science writing travelled within and beyond its home continent and non- European science was taken up in a colonial context. Using insights from fields of research including book history and textual studies to investigate the paratextual framing, stylistic choices, rhetorical devices, and modes of expression deployed by scientific writers - key to shaping a work's credibility and its author's integrity -it argues that translators are central, yet largely overlooked, mediators in this creative process.