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Studies in the History of Natural Sciences  2020, Vol. 39 Issue (3): 321-335    DOI:
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Structural Adjustments and Changes in Content in the Translation Huaxue Jianyuan
HUANG Linkai1,2, NIE Fuling1
1. Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China;
2. North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China
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Abstract  As the first inorganic chemistry textbook in China, Huaxue jianyuan played an important role in the translation and spread of chemical knowledge in the late Qing dynasty. Based on a comparison of the Huaxue jianyuan (1871) with its original English text, Wells's Principles and Applications of Chemistry (1858), this study reveals that the structure of the original was adjusted and content added and deleted in the process producing the translation in order to make it more suitable for the needs of Chinese readers and conducive to the spread of knowledge. At the same time, it also has resulted in certain inadequacies in the translation in terms of the logical relationship between knowledge and chemical theory.

Key words： Huaxue jianyuan      Xu Shou      John Fryer      translation      adjustment      additions      deletions     
Received: 08 March 2019      Published: 17 June 2022
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HUANG Linkai, NIE Fuling. Structural Adjustments and Changes in Content in the Translation Huaxue Jianyuan. Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2020, 39(3): 321-335.

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