Our most grateful thanks to Michel Serres for his unfailing attentiveness and patience in helping to unpack the occasional ambiguity in the text and, like a good sailor, teaching us how certain knots are tied.
We would also like to thank Barbara Hanna and Geoffrey Little for their careful and helpful reading of various drafts of the translation, as well as our colleagues in the Department of French Studies at the University of Sydney for their support and suggestions, and students who participated in our department’s fourth-year seminar on translation.
Peter Cowley and Margaret Sankey
The University of Sydney