Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space.

Katja Krause, a historian of philosophy and science, is Professor of the History of Science at the Technische Universit at Berlin and leads the research group ＂Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body＂ at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Maria Auxent is a historian of science specializing in scientific language and communication and the philosophy of science. She currently works at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Dror Weil, assistant professor (University Lecturer) in the history of early modern Asia at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, works on the Islamicate world and China during the medieval and early modern periods.