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Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca Instrument: The Ottoman Engineer Feyzi’s Treatise on the Portable Sextant (2019)

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Authors & Contributors
Günergun, Feza
Brenni, Paolo
Belteki, Daniel
Scholze, Bernd
Lazos, Panagiotis
Stolz, Daniel A.
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
British Journal for the History of Science
Science in Context
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Brill
Cambridge University Press
Istanbul University
Concepts
Astronomy
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Telescopes
Biographies
Astronomical observatories
Cosmology
People
Conté, Nicolas-Jacques
Roth, Imrich Emanuel
Zöllner, Johann Karl Friedrich
Wharton, William
Tertemiz, Serafettin Tevfik
Tempel, Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
15th century
Places
Ottoman Empire
Great Britain
Istanbul (Turkey)
Turkey
Germany
Egypt
Institutions
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Greek Philological Society of Constantinople
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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