John Fryer and The Translator’s Vade-mecum
John Fryer and The Translator’s Vade-mecum

Author: Gabriele Tola

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9004443215

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In John Fryer and The Translator’s Vade-mecum, Tola offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the collection of scientific and technical glossaries, with English-Chinese parallel translation, compiled by the English scholar John Fryer (1839–1928).

John Fryer
John Fryer

Author: Adrian Arthur Bennett

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1684171555

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A detailed description of the role of John Fryer (1839-1928), English missionary and educator, in the diffusion of western science and technology into nineteenth-century China. Fryer translated many scientific books into Chinese and compiled a six-volume collection of Chinese scientific books in 1875 and later set up the Chinese Scientific Book Depot.