Scientific instruments between East and West /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scientific instruments and collections ; volume 7 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12872179 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Chapter 1 A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium ofAstronomical Instruments Seydi Ali's Mirʼat-ı Kâinat; Chapter 2 Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi's Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī (The Gift of the Convert), 1779; Chapter 3 Treatises on Pergar-ı Nisbe (the Sector) in Manuscript Collections in Turkey; Chapter 4 Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca Instrument The Ottoman Engineer Feyzi's Treatise on the Portable Sextant; Chapter 5 How Did the Turketum (or Torquetum) Get Its Name?
- Chapter 6 A Mingling of Traditions Aspects of Dialling in IslamChapter 7 Kāshānī's Equatorium Employing Different Plates for Determining Planetary Longitudes; Chapter 8 The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 9 Hugo Masing's Golitsyn-Vilip Seismographs From Tartu to Five Continents; Chapter 10 Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850-1960; Chapter 11 From the Ottoman Empire to Canada George Petrovic's Metrological Instruments in the Canada Science and Technology Museum
- Chapter 12 Instruments of Knowledge and Power in a Colonial Context Scientific Instruments during the French Occupation of Egypt, 1798-1801Chapter 13 The Magic Lantern as an Ambassador betweenCultures and Religions Imrich Emanuel Roth and the First Dissolving View Shows in the OttomanEmpire, 1845-1846; Chapter 14 Scientific Instrument Retailers in Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century, and Verdoux's Optical Shop; Index