
HoP 150 - Charles Burnett and Dag N Hasse on Arabic Latin Translations
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Methodology of Translation in the Middle Ages
It was always an old assumption that Michael Scott was responsible for large number of commentaries, but it was successful to improve it. And the idea was perhaps we can do it with not with technical vocabulary, like Substantia or Cudditas, but by looking at small worlds. So therefore in Latin Crop Jopter is a particle distinctive of Michael Scott. Other translators use other particles. With a statistical analysis of this particle usage, you can really see the handwriting, so to speak, the stylistic handwriting of the translators and systemally and group them.
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