This work sets a French translation of the Giovanni Poleni’s essay De ergatae Navalis praestibiliore, facilioreque usu, Dissertatio (“Essay about a handier and easier use of a capstan on a boat”) written by the mathematics teacher in Padua on 1741 in order to Continuer la lecture
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Why were the essays written by Poleni not translated yet ? Thoughts about translation’s historical methods of scientific Latin texts.
A translation is based upon two concepts : heritage or tradition and break. In order to answer to this question : why were the essays written by Poleni not translated yet ?, I decided to examine how and why translate ad verbum (word to word) through a few examples like : Aristotle, Newton, Cicero, Sacro Bosco, Linné or Poleni himself. The translation ad verbum creates a new science’s vocabulary and the language of the scientists who wrote in Latin, is a mix between Greek, Latin or contemporary words. So I purpose, with Charles Batteux, some principles to translate a scientific text. And I link up this translation word to word and the quarrel between the Ancient and the Moderns (“On the shoulders of giants…” XVIIth century). Continuer la lecture