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17 - Ottoman Science

Institutions, Genres, Materials

from Part II - Perspectives and Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2025

Alexis Wick
Affiliation:
Koç University, Istanbul
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This chapter delves into the production of scientific knowledge and its practice within the expansive temporal and geographical scope of the Ottoman Empire. Organized chronologically into two main sections, the chapter portrays the foundational scientific institutions and conventions while also introducing the textual and material facets of scientific enterprises. Through this focused lens, the chapter traces the enduring and evolving elements of scientific pursuits and their sociopolitical implications from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

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Print publication year: 2025

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Küçük, B. H. 2020, Science without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660–1732, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh PressGoogle Scholar
Sariyannis, M. 2020, “The Limits of Going Global: The Case of ‘Ottoman Enlightenment(s)’,History Compass 18 (9), e12623CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sayılı, A. 1960, The Observatory in Islam and Its Place in the General History of the Observatory, Ankara: Türk Tarih KurumuGoogle Scholar
Shefer-Mossensohn, M. 2015, Science among the Ottomans: The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge, Austin: University of Texas PressGoogle Scholar
Yalçinkaya, M. A. 2015, Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, Chicago: University of Chicago PressCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yaycıoğlu, A. 2018, “Guarding Traditions and Laws – Disciplining Bodies and Souls: Tradition, Science, and Religion in the Age of Ottoman Reform,Modern Asian Studies, 52 (5), pp. 1542–603CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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