Edition critique, commentaire historique et identification approfondie des sources (auctoritates) du livre VIII de l’encyclopédie naturelle de Barthélemy l’Anglais, intitulé De mundo et corporibus celestibus (cosmologie, astrologie, astronomie.
This article aims to show how the translators of the Latin series of the “Collection des Universités de France” treated the obscene passages between 1920 and 1945. Some address the issue in their preface; many deliberately avoid a literal translation, either by quite simply refraining from translating the passages concerned, or by relying on a form...