Dodonĉus in Japan [In Japanese & English]
Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period
Edited by W.F. Vande Walle & Kazuhiko Kasaya
December 2001
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 90-5867-179-8
383 pages, illustrated
$137.00 hardcover
This collection of essays is the outcome of an international symposium hosted in Belgium in 1998. The symposium actually consisted of two parallel sessions, and this book covers the second, namely, Translation and Adaptation in the Formulation of Modern Episteme: A Reappraisal of Dodoens.
Contents:
Preface. Introduction. Dodonĉus in the European Context. Translation and the Articulation of the Modern Episteme in Japan. Japanese Renditions of Dodonĉus. The Rangaku Context. Index of Names.
Translation; Japan
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