Scientific instruments between East and West / / edited by Neil Brown, Silke Ackermann, Feza Günergun.

• Superior document: Scientific Instruments and Collections; volume7
• Author: Scientific Instrument Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Neil; Ackermann, Silke,; Günergun, Feza,; Scientific Instrument Symposium (35th : 2016 : Istanbul, Turkey)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Scientific Instruments and Collections; volume7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages).

Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on aspects of the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds, particularly from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. The contributors, from a variety of countries, draw on original Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts and other archival sources and publications dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries not previously studied for their relevance to the history of scientific instruments. This little-studied topic in the history of science was the subject of the 35th Scientific Instrument Symposium held in Istanbul in September 2016, where the original versions of these essays were delivered. Contributors are Mahdi Abdeljaouad, Pierre Ageron, Hamid Bohloul, Patrice Bret, Gaye Danışan, Feza Günergun, Meltem Kocaman, Richard L. Kremer, Janet Laidla, Panagiotis Lazos, David Pantalony, Atilla Polat, Bernd Scholze, Konstantinos Skordoulis, Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei, Anthony Turner, Hasan Umut, and George Vlahakis.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface / Neil Brown, Silke Ackermann and Feza Günergun -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium of Astronomical Instruments / Gaye Danışan -- Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi’s Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī (The Gift of the Convert), 1779 / Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Pierre Ageron -- Treatises on Pergar-ı Nisbe (the Sector) in Manuscript Collections in Turkey / Atilla Polat -- Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca Instrument / Feza Günergun, Gaye Danışan and Atilla Polat -- How Did the Turketum (or Torquetum) Get Its Name? / Richard L. Kremer -- A Mingling of Traditions / Anthony Turner -- Kāshānī’s Equatorium / Hamid Bohloul -- The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth Century / Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei -- Hugo Masing’s Golitsyn-Vilip Seismographs / Janet Laidla -- Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850–1960 / Panagiotis Lazos, George N. Vlahakis and Constantine Skordoulis -- From the Ottoman Empire to Canada / Hasan Umut and David Pantalony -- Instruments of Knowledge and Power in a Colonial Context / Patrice Bret -- The Magic Lantern as an Ambassador between Cultures and Religions / Bernd Scholze -- Scientific Instrument Retailers in Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century, and Verdoux’s Optical Shop / Meltem Kocaman -- Back Matter -- Index.