Workshop on Philosophical Translation, HU Berlin

Giovanni Vacca's transcription and translation of a problem asking to calculate the hypotenuse in a right-angled triangle from Cheng Dawei’s Unified Lineage of Mathematical Methods (1592) — Giovanni Vacca, transcription and translation of a problem asking to calculate the hypotenuse in a right-angled triangle from Cheng Dawei’s Unified Lineage of Mathematical Methods 算法統宗 (1592), Fondo Bertuccioli, Bibl. di Studi orientali, Sapienza (Università di Roma)

1. July 2023

The research group on philosophical translation at Humboldt University under direction of Prof. Dr. Michael Beaney (UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN AND HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN) has organized a “Workshop on Philosophical Translation” on July 8, 2023. Prof. Andrea Bréard will present a paper with the title “When an early twentieth-century Italian logician translates Chinese mathematical texts: some philosophical consequences”.

Venue:

Unter den Linden 6
10117 Berlin (Straßenadresse)