Mobilities of Knowledge by Heike Jöns Peter Meusburger & Michael Heffernan

Author:Heike Jöns, Peter Meusburger & Michael Heffernan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Writing in the Contemporary Review in 1886, the German scholar and professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford , Friedrich Max Müller, remarked upon the continuing vitality of what he described as a “universal republic of letters” encompassing not only Europe but the entire globe:The whole world seems writing, reading, and talking together … Newton’s “Principia” are studied in Chinese, and the more modern works of Herschell, Lyell, Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley [and] Lockyer, have created in the far East the same commotion as in Europe. Even books like my own, which stir up no passions, and can appeal to the narrow circle of scholars only, have been sent to me, translated not only into the principal languages of Europe, but into Bengali, Mahratti, Guzerathi, Japanese —nay, even into Sanskrit. (Müller, 1886, p. 790)

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