A Tradução de Somnium de Johannes Kepler para o Português do Brasil a partir do Inglês: Ciência e Ficção Científica

Abstract

This research is focused on the translation and debate on Johannes Kepler's Somnium, using the commented translation of the text in English into Brazilian Portuguese. The work is relevant, since the translation of the work with comments for Brazilian Portuguese is not found. The translation was made only of the first part of the main text of the work, except the footnotes or the calculations made by Kepler, that is, only the literary part of Somnium. In order to translate this part of the work, a survey was made on the methods of translation with the purpose of choosing the best method to translate it in this work and also will make a survey of the satirical aspect pointed out by the biographer of Kepler that possibly took to the genre shift from scientific to scientific fiction. Finally, in the part of the translation, was chosen the method of free translation, at the same time, trying to maintain the writing style of the author. Already in the discussion about science and science fiction, it was concluded that the focuses that society had on the text of Kepler changed over time, because in 1634 the work was focused on calculations and physical theories, to be regarded as scientific, and after the confirmation of Kepler's theories, the focus has turned to the satirical part. With that the work became fictional with scientific characteristics, in other words, science fiction.