Title: Pursuing knowledge : scientific instruments, manuscripts and prints from Istanbul University collections = Bilginin izinde : İstanbul Üniversitesi koleksiyonlarından bilimsel aletler, yazmalar, baskılar /
Authors: Günergun, Feza,; İstanbul Üniversitesi.
Publisher: Istanbul Üniversitesi,
Year: 2016
Subjects: İstanbul Üniversitesi Exhibitions.; İstanbul Üniversitesi; Scientific apparatus and instruments Turkey Exhibitions.; Science Study and teaching Turkey Exhibitions.; Manuscripts Turkey Istanbul Exhibitions.; Manuscripts; Science Study and teaching; Scientific apparatus and instruments; Turkey
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.