Cultural translation in Jesuit Missionaries’ Chinese scientific texts: some temarks on Ludovico Buglio’s Falconry treatise of 1679
This article analyses from a cross-cultural view a Chinese book of the seventeenth century, Jincheng yinglun (Treatise on Falcons), written by Ludovico Buglio, an Italian Jesuit who did a partial translation of liber sextus of Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Ornithologiae (De Falconibus in Genere), published in Bologna in various editions from 1596 to 1598.