Scientific Instruments Between East and West

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41283-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Scientific Instruments and Collections

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 Danisan, 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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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Abdeljaouad, Mahdi

Ageron, Pierre

Bohloul, Hamid

Bret, Patrice

Danisan, Gaye

Kocaman, Meltem

Kremer, Richard L

Laidla, Janet

Lazos, Panagiotis G

Pantalony, David

Polat, Atilla

Scholze, Bernd

Skordoulis, Constantine

Tabatabaei, Seyyed Hadi

Turner, Anthony

Umut, Hasan

Vlahakis, George N

Brown, Neil

Ackermann, Silke

Günergun, Feza

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Contributors

1 A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium of Astronomical Instruments

Seydi Ali’s Mir'at-i Kâinat

Gaye Danisan

2 Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi’s Hadiyyat al-Muhtadi (The Gift of the Convert), 1779

Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Pierre Ageron

3 Treatises on Pergar-i 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 Danisan 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 Kashani’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

Über Autor(innen)

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 Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari (Studies in Ottoman Science).