Scientific instruments between East and West /

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

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 o...

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Superior document:Scientific Instruments and Collections; volume7
:
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).
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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.

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