Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Science Between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge

Science Between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge

Günergun, Feza
Raina, Dhruv

Paperback

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Book 275

Medical ReferenceSports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 9400734646
ISBN13: 9789400734647
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 27 2013
Pages: 279
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Introduction, Feza Günergun, Dhruv Raina On technologies Christopher Cullen, Reflections on the transmission and transformation of technologies: Agriculture, printing and gunpowder between East and West Gabor Agoston, The Ottoman Empire and the technological dialogue between Europe and Asia: the case of military technology and know-how in the gunpowder age Kahraman Şakul, General observations on the Ottoman military industry, 1774-1839: Problems of organization and standardization Nanny Kim, Cultural attitudes and horse technologies: a view on chariots and stirrups from the eastern end of the Eurasian continent On maps, astronomical instruments, clocks and calendars Sonja Brentjes, Patchwork - the norm of mapmaking practices for western Asia in Catholic and Protestant Europe as well as in Istanbul between 1550 and 1750? Feza Günergun, The Ottoman ambassador's curiosity coffer: Eclipse prediction with De La Hire's 'machine' crafted by Bion of Paris Atilla Bir, Şinasi Acar, Mustafa Kaçar, The clockmaker family Meyer and their watch keeping the alla turca time Takehiko Hashimoto, The Adoption and adaptation of mechanical clocks in Japan Pingyi Chu, Adoption and resistance: Zhang Yongjing and ancient chinese calendrical methods On localizing, appropriating and translating new knowledge Dhruv Raina, Travelling Both Ways: The Adaptation of Disciplines, Scientific Textbooks and Institutions Meltem Akbaş, Between translation and adaptation: the Turkish editions of Ganot's Traité Manolis Patiniotis, Eclecticism and appropriation of the new scientific methods by the Greek-speaking scholars in the Ottoman Empire On medicine and medical practices Harold J.Cook, Conveying Chinese medicine to 17th-century Europe Deepak Kumar, Adoption and adaptation: a study of medical ideas and techniques in colonial India Akiko Ito, How electricity energizes the body: Electrotherapeutics and its analogy of life in the Japanese medical context Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, What is 'Islamic' in Islamic medicine? An overview

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Sports General

View All