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I wish there was a central way to track the books that have never been scanned or translated— just to show the work we have to do. My guess is that the majority
by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I wish there was a central way to track the books that have never been scanned or translated— just to show the work we have to do. My guess is that the majority of Neo-Latin works are unscanned and untranslated.
- Telemakhos 1y agoEven among the scanned books there are tons of untranslated ones. I've collected a few that I'd like to do editions of with commentaries and translations—they're all on the same topic, which up until a few years ago nobody thought existed (in fact, someone's book on a related topic denied that these existed, because the author didn't know about them). I found them all initially through scans on Google Books.
- WalterBright 1y agoRecent versions of AI have greatly improved my ability to decode and translate ancient family letters. Finally!
- dr_dshiv 1y agoIm working on this challenge with the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam… hit me up if you are interested. Curious which books you are starting with!
- __lm__ 1y agoEven recent works might be both unscanned and untranslated. I experienced this when the only way to access a 70 years old scientific paper written in Italian was by finding a copy in a library and scanning it. There are not many existing copies of the journal left, in a few decades it might have been lost forever.