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Introduction: Translators and Translations of Early Modern Science

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In the introduction to the German translation of Jan Baptista van Helmont’s (1579- 1644) originally Latin Ortus medicinae [The Rise of Medicine], the translator Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636-1689) explains that his chief aim was to make the text understandable to the reader. To accomplish that level of comprehensibility he had to make some choices.

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Introduction: Translators and Translations of Early Modern Science

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Brill

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9789004349254
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AHRC (AH/M001938/1)