Brown, Neil (Editor)
Brill
Publication date: 2019
Language: English
Physical Details: 304
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.
...MoreReview Petra G. Schmidl (2020) Review of "Scientific Instruments between East and West". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 497-499).
Chapter Hasan Umut; David Pantalony (2019) From the Ottoman Empire to Canada: George Petrovic’s Metrological Instruments in the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 187-205).
Chapter Bernd Scholze (2019) 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. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 229-239).
Chapter Richard L. Kremer (2019) How Did the Turketum (or Torquetum) Get Its Name?. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 80-107).
Chapter Mahdi Abdeljaouad; Pierre Ageron (2019) Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi’s Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī (The Gift of the Convert), 1779. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 16-38).
Chapter Panagiotis Lazos; George N. Vlahakis; Constantine Skordoulis (2019) Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850–1960. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 168-186).
Chapter Anthony Turner (2019) A Mingling of Traditions: Aspects of Dialling in Islam. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 108-121).
Chapter Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei (2019) The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth Century. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 142-153).
Chapter Hamid Bohloul (2019) Kāshānī’s Equatorium: Employing Different Plates for Determining Planetary Longitudes. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 122-141).
Chapter Meltem Kocaman (2019) Scientific Instrument Retailers in Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century, and Verdoux’s Optical Shop. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 240-256).
Chapter Patrice Bret (2019) Instruments of Knowledge and Power in a Colonial Context: Scientific Instruments during the French Occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 206-228).
Chapter Gaye Danışan (2019) A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium of Astronomical Instruments: Seydi Ali’s Mirʾat-ı Kâinat. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 1-15).
Chapter Feza Günergun; Gaye Danışan; Atilla Polat (2019) Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca Instrument: The Ottoman Engineer Feyzi’s Treatise on the Portable Sextant. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 55-79).
Chapter Atilla Polat (2019) Treatises on Pergar-ı Nisbe (the Sector) in Manuscript Collections in Turkey. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 39-54).
Chapter Janet Laidla (2019) Hugo Masing’s Golitsyn-Vilip Seismographs: From Tartu to Five Continents. In: Scientific Instruments between East and West (pp. 154-167).
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