Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Translators and Translations of Early Modern Science

Part 1 Translating Networks of Knowledge

Chapter 1 Translation in the Circle of Robert Hooke

Chapter 2 Networks and Translation within the Republic of Letters: The Case of Theodore Haak (1605–1690)

Chapter 3 What Difference does a Translation Make? The Traité des vernis (1723) in the Career of Charles Dufay

Chapter 4 ‘Ordinary Skill in Cutts’: Visual Translation in Early Modern Learned Journals

Part 2 Translating Practical Knowledge

Chapter 5 ‘As the Author Intended’: Transformations of the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Simon Stevin (1548–1620)

Chapter 6 Bringing Euclid into the Mines: Classical Sources and Vernacular Knowledge in the Development of Subterranean Geometry

Chapter 7 Image, Word and Translation in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Quaestiones Mechanicae

Chapter 8 ‘Secrets of Industry’ for ‘Common Men’: Charles de Bovelles and Early French Readerships of Technical Print

Part 3 Translating Philosophical Knowledge

Chapter 9 Taming Epicurus: Gassendi, Charleton, and the Translation of Epicurus’ Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 10 Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Copernican Rhetoric

Chapter 11 ‘Now Brought before You in English Habit’: An Early Modern Translation of Galileo into English

Chapter 12 Language as ‘Universal Truchman’: Translating the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century

Index Nominum