{"product_id":"scientific-instruments-between-east-and-west-9789004412835","title":"Scientific Instruments between East and West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScientific 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.    See inside the book ​​​​​​​here.​\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[...] 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210784989527,"sku":"9789004412835","price":146.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scientific-instruments-between-east-and-west-9789004412835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}