Scientific Instruments between East and West

Neil Brown has a BSc in Physics and an MSc in the History of Technology, and spent most of his working life at the Science Museum in London, curating a wide range of physical science and engineering artefacts.Silke Ackermann (PhD), studied History, Languages and Cultures of the Orient, and History of Science. She has been the Director of the History of Science Museum in Oxford since 2014 following sixteen years in a variety of curatorial and managerial roles at the British Museum.Feza Günergun has a BSc in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in the History of Medicine. She is the Head of the Department of the History of Science (Istanbul University) and the editor of the journal Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları (Studies in Ottoman Science).

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesContributors1 A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium of Astronomical InstrumentsSeydi Ali’s Mirʾat-ı KâinatGaye Danışan2 Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi’s Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī (The Gift of the Convert), 1779Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Pierre Ageron3 Treatises on Pergar-ı Nisbe (the Sector) in Manuscript Collections in TurkeyAtilla Polat4 Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca InstrumentThe Ottoman Engineer Feyzi’s Treatise on the Portable SextantFeza Günergun, Gaye Danışan and Atilla Polat5 How Did the Turketum (or Torquetum) Get Its Name?Richard L. Kremer6 A Mingling of TraditionsAspects of Dialling in IslamAnthony Turner7 Kāshānī’s EquatoriumEmploying Different Plates for Determining Planetary LongitudesHamid Bohloul8 The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth CenturySeyyed Hadi Tabatabaei9 Hugo Masing’s Golitsyn-Vilip SeismographsFrom Tartu to Five ContinentsJanet Laidla10 Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850–1960Panagiotis Lazos, George Vlahakis and Constantine Skordoulis11 From the Ottoman Empire to CanadaGeorge Petrovic’s Metrological Instruments in the Canada Science and Technology MuseumHasan Umut and David Pantalony12 Instruments of Knowledge and Power in a Colonial ContextScientific Instruments during the French Occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801Patrice Bret13 The Magic Lantern as an Ambassador between Cultures and ReligionsImrich Emanuel Roth and the First Dissolving View Shows in the Ottoman Empire, 1845–1846Bernd Scholze14 Scientific Instrument Retailers in Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century, and Verdoux’s Optical ShopMeltem KocamanIndex

"[...] 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, in:Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 51, No. 4: pp. 497-499