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]
- Books
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.
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-149).
Language note
English and Turkish.
Where to find it
Location Status FoliosABF.295Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9786050706062
- 6050706069