Scientific Instruments between East and West: Scientific Instruments and Collections, cartea 7
Contribuţii de Mahdi Abdeljaouad, Pierre Ageron, Hamid Bohloul, Patrice Bret, Gaye Danışan, Meltem Kocaman, Richard L Kremer, Janet Laidla, Panagiotis G Lazos, David Pantalony, Atilla Polat, Bernd Scholze, Constantine Skordoulis, Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei, Anthony Turner, Hasan Umut, George N Vlahakis Neil Brown, Silke Ackermann, Feza Günergunen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 sep 2019
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004412835
ISBN-10: 9004412832
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Scientific Instruments and Collections
ISBN-10: 9004412832
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Scientific Instruments and Collections
Cuprins
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Contributors
1 A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium of Astronomical Instruments
Seydi Ali’s Mirʾat-ı Kâinat
Gaye Danışan
2 Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi’s Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī (The Gift of the Convert), 1779
Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Pierre Ageron
3 Treatises on Pergar-ı Nisbe (the Sector) in Manuscript Collections in Turkey
Atilla Polat
4 Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca Instrument
The Ottoman Engineer Feyzi’s Treatise on the Portable Sextant
Feza Günergun, Gaye Danışan and Atilla Polat
5 How Did the Turketum (or Torquetum) Get Its Name?
Richard L. Kremer
6 A Mingling of Traditions
Aspects of Dialling in Islam
Anthony Turner
7 Kāshānī’s Equatorium
Employing Different Plates for Determining Planetary Longitudes
Hamid Bohloul
8 The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth Century
Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei
9 Hugo Masing’s Golitsyn-Vilip Seismographs
From Tartu to Five Continents
Janet Laidla
10 Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850–1960
Panagiotis Lazos, George Vlahakis and Constantine Skordoulis
11 From the Ottoman Empire to Canada
George Petrovic’s Metrological Instruments in the Canada Science and Technology Museum
Hasan Umut and David Pantalony
12 Instruments of Knowledge and Power in a Colonial Context
Scientific Instruments during the French Occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801
Patrice Bret
13 The Magic Lantern as an Ambassador between Cultures and Religions
Imrich Emanuel Roth and the First Dissolving View Shows in the Ottoman Empire, 1845–1846
Bernd Scholze
14 Scientific Instrument Retailers in Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century, and Verdoux’s Optical Shop
Meltem Kocaman
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Contributors
1 A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium of Astronomical Instruments
Seydi Ali’s Mirʾat-ı Kâinat
Gaye Danışan
2 Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi’s Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī (The Gift of the Convert), 1779
Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Pierre Ageron
3 Treatises on Pergar-ı Nisbe (the Sector) in Manuscript Collections in Turkey
Atilla Polat
4 Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca Instrument
The Ottoman Engineer Feyzi’s Treatise on the Portable Sextant
Feza Günergun, Gaye Danışan and Atilla Polat
5 How Did the Turketum (or Torquetum) Get Its Name?
Richard L. Kremer
6 A Mingling of Traditions
Aspects of Dialling in Islam
Anthony Turner
7 Kāshānī’s Equatorium
Employing Different Plates for Determining Planetary Longitudes
Hamid Bohloul
8 The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth Century
Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei
9 Hugo Masing’s Golitsyn-Vilip Seismographs
From Tartu to Five Continents
Janet Laidla
10 Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850–1960
Panagiotis Lazos, George Vlahakis and Constantine Skordoulis
11 From the Ottoman Empire to Canada
George Petrovic’s Metrological Instruments in the Canada Science and Technology Museum
Hasan Umut and David Pantalony
12 Instruments of Knowledge and Power in a Colonial Context
Scientific Instruments during the French Occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801
Patrice Bret
13 The Magic Lantern as an Ambassador between Cultures and Religions
Imrich Emanuel Roth and the First Dissolving View Shows in the Ottoman Empire, 1845–1846
Bernd Scholze
14 Scientific Instrument Retailers in Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century, and Verdoux’s Optical Shop
Meltem Kocaman
Index
Notă biografică
Neil Brown has a BSc in Physics and an MSc in the History of Technology, and spent most of his working life at the Science Museum in London, curating a wide range of physical science and engineering artefacts.
Silke Ackermann (PhD), studied History, Languages and Cultures of the Orient, and History of Science. She has been the Director of the History of Science Museum in Oxford since 2014 following sixteen years in a variety of curatorial and managerial roles at the British Museum.
Feza Günergun has a BSc in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in the History of Medicine. She is the Head of the Department of the History of Science (Istanbul University) and the editor of the journal Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları (Studies in Ottoman Science).
Silke Ackermann (PhD), studied History, Languages and Cultures of the Orient, and History of Science. She has been the Director of the History of Science Museum in Oxford since 2014 following sixteen years in a variety of curatorial and managerial roles at the British Museum.
Feza Günergun has a BSc in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in the History of Medicine. She is the Head of the Department of the History of Science (Istanbul University) and the editor of the journal Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları (Studies in Ottoman Science).
Recenzii
"[...] by presenting lesser known case studies of knowledge transfer and of interdependencies between West and East, the volume offers worthwhile reading for those interested in the history of early modern and modern times, especially of the Ottoman empire."
Petra G. Schmidl (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Journal for the History of Astronomy 51(4):497-499.
Petra G. Schmidl (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Journal for the History of Astronomy 51(4):497-499.