LibGuides: The UIUC Symposium, “How Does Culture Move? Mobility and Stasis in Global Cultural History.”: Mobility of scientific, philospohical and religious ideas through translation

Albert Einstein

English translation of Albert Einstein's

Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (Relativity. The Special and General Theory) by Robert W. Lawson (1920 edition).

Title page.

A portrait of Albert Einstein by Hermann Struck reprinted in the book.

From the Preface.

Russian translation of Albert Einstein's Relativitätstheorie (1921).

Cover.

Title page.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; Julian Huxley (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0451529065
Publication Date: 2003-09-02
This is the book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who followed. Darwin's theory of evolution and the descent of man remains as controversial and influential today as when it was published over a century ago (in 1859).

Russian translation of On the Origin of Species (1865).

Title page.

Beginning of chapter 1.

Dutch translation of On the Origin of Species (1883).

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Spanish translation of On the Origin of Species (2003).

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (another kind of “translation”)

Beautiful Brain by Larry W. Swanson; Eric Newman; Alfonso Araque; Janet M. Dubinsky
ISBN: 9781419722271
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
At the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain presents Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal's contributions to neuroscience through his groundbreaking artistic brain imagery. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was the father of modern neuroscience and an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body's most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualization, based on fanatically precise techniques and countless hours at the microscope, resulted in some of the most remarkable illustrations in the history of science. Beautiful Brain presents a selection of his exquisite drawings of brain cells, brain regions, and neural circuits with accessible descriptive commentary. These drawings are explored from multiple perspectives: Larry W. Swanson describes Cajal's contributions to neuroscience; Lyndel King and Eric Himmel explore his artistic roots and achievement; Eric A. Newman provides commentary on the drawings; and Janet M. Dubinsky describes contemporary neuroscience imaging techniques. This book is the companion to a traveling exhibition opening at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis in February 2017, marking the first time that many of these works, which are housed at the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, have been seen outside of Spain. Beautiful Brain showcases Cajal's contributions to neuroscience, explores his artistic roots and achievement, and looks at his work in relation to contemporary neuroscience imaging, appealing to general readers and professionals alike.

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Marie Curie

Traité de radioactivité (1910)

Title page.

Polish edition of her works Prace Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie (1954).

Title page in Polish.

Portrait of Maria Sklodowska-Curie included in the book.

Title page in French.

Translations of religious texts and sacred scriptures

Bible translations

The UIUC Rare Book and Manuscript Library has a copy of the first edition of Biblia Brzeska (the Brest Bible) that was the first complete Protestant (Calvinist) Bible translation into Polish, published in 1563.

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Biblia święta, tho iest, Księgi Starego y Nowego Zakonu, właśnie z Żydowskiego Greckiego y Łacińskiego, nowo na Polski ięzyk, z pilnością y wiernie wyłożone.

Martin Luther's translation of the Bible. Biblia, das ist: die ganze göttliche heilige Schrift alten und neuen Testaments, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers. The UIUC LIbrary has the Saur edition published in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1776. Contributed by Professor Robert Jenkins, UIUC Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Translation and Interpreting Studies.

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Koran translations

Contemporary Spanish translation.

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Bhagavad Gītā translations

English and Sanskrit contemporary annotated edition.

Cover.

Title page.

Beginning of Book One.

Dhammapada translations

Contemporary edition that includes the text in Pali and Sanskrit and translations into English, Hindi, and Tibetan.

Cover.

Translations of The Analects of Confucius

Contemporary English translation.

Cover.

The following is the first sentence of Hittite to be deciphered by a modern translator, a Czech linguist named Bedřich Hrozný. This translation provided the first evidence (not universally accepted for some years after its first publication) that Hittite is an Indo-European language. Hrozný's translation effectively unlocked the world of the Hittites for modern scholars. Hittite is now known to be the oldest Indo-European language attested in written records. The language was spoken in and around the highlands of Bronze Age Anatolia. It was written primarily in clay tablets using cuneiform.

The sentence deciphered by Hrozný appears in Die Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi XIII.4, 2.77, "Instructions for Priests and Temple Personnel". Its English translation: "And you shall eat bread and drink water". Hrozný's translation first appeared in 1915 and then in a fuller publication in 1917, Die Sprache der Hethiter, ihr Bau und ihre Zugehörigkeit zum indogermanischen Sprachstamm (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs).

The attached image includes a photograph of the original tablet containing the cuneiform inscription (hethiter.net/: fotarch N04639, Gerfrid G. W. Müller, 2002-2021). Standardized versions of the cuneiform signs and their transliteration are provided by Shosted and appear below the photograph of the tablet.

Contributed by Professor Ryan Keith Shosted UIUC Department of Linguistics.

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 0805242252
Publication Date: 2004-04-20
The Origins of Totalitarianism is an indispensable book for understanding the frightful barbarity of the twentieth century. Suspicious of the inevitability so often imposed by hindsight, Hannah Arendt was not interested in detailing the causes that produced totalitarianism. Nothing in the nineteenth century--indeed, nothing in human history--could have prepared us for the idea of political domination achieved by organizing the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all humanity were just one individual. Arendt believed that such a development marked a grotesque departure from all that had come before. nbsp; In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt sought to provide an historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism: The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and he rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it. For Arendt, totalitarianism was a form of governance that eliminated the very possibility of political action. Totalitarian leaders attract both mobs and elites, take advantage of the unthinkability of their atrocities, target "objective enemies" (classes of people who are liquidated simply because of their group membership), use terror to create loyalty, rely on concentration camps, and are obsessive in their pursuit of global primacy. But even more presciently, Arendt understood that totalitarian solutions could well survive the demise of totalitarian regimes. nbsp; The Origins of Totalitarianism remains as essential a book for understanding our times as it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago.

The Origins of Totalitarianism is a work that has moved the world in translation. Among many other languages, the book was translated into Serbian in 1998 by Slavica Stojanović and Aleksandra Bajazetov-Vučen. This translation was highly influential in the feminist anti-war movement in Serbia. Contributed by Dana N. Johnson, PhD, Assistant Director of External Fellowships, UIUC Graduate College.

The Origins of Totalitarianism in Serbian translation. Cover.

Havelock Ellis’s and John Addington Symonds’s Sexual Inversion (1897) is a cornerstone of twentieth-century theories of sexuality, and the first sexological manual about homosexuality written in English. What is less widely known is that, due to the panic in Great Britain about homosexuality after the Oscar Wilde trial (held in 1895), this massive work was first published in translation to German as Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefül (1896). The translator, Dr. Hans Kurella, was a physician who was chosen personally by Ellis. Without the German translation, the English-speaking world would probably never have had access to this landmark work. Contributed by Jone Vicente Urrutia, PhD candidate of the department of Spanish and Portuguese.