Pursuing knowledge : scientific instruments, manuscripts and prints from Istanbul University collections = Bilginin izinde : İstanbul Üniversitesi koleksiyonlarından bilimsel aletler, yazmalar, baskılar / editor, Feza Günergun.

Date:
[2016]
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About this work

Also known as

Bilginin izinde : İstanbul Üniversitesi koleksiyonlarından bilimsel aletler, yazmalar, baskılar

Description

The exhibition aims to reflect the mobility of knowledge between Central Asia and Western Europe, throughout a chronology starting in the late 13th century and extending to the early decades of the 20th century.

Publication/Creation

Istanbul : Istanbul Üniversitesi, [2016]

Physical description

149 pages : illustrations (mainly color) ; 30 cm

Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Istanbul University Bayezid II Museum for Turkish Bath Culture, Istanbul, Turkey, September 26-December 26, 2016, and held in conjunction with the 35th Scientific Instrument Symposium, held in Istanbul, Turkey September 26-30, 2016.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-149).

Contents

Ottomans' quest for knowledge / Feza Günergun -- Chronology: science from the East, techniques from the West: Turkey's 700-year long venture -- Observatories and their instruments -- Instruments from the West -- Measuring, drawing and calculating -- Experimenting, measuring, recording -- Reaching distant objects and magnifying the tiny -- Penetrating matter -- Beware of electricity! -- Physics in the classroom -- Surveying and mapping -- Melting, distilling, solving, evaporating... -- Discovering nature.

Language note

English and Turkish.

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Folios
    ABF.295
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9786050706062
  • 6050706069