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Dordrecht : Springer, 2010

Online-Ressource (278 p)

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SCIENCE BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA; Introduction; Part 1: On Technologies; Reflections on the Transmission and Transformation of Technologies: Agriculture, Printing and Gunpowder between East and West; The Ottoman Empire and the Technological Dialogue Between Europe and Asia: The Case of Military Technology and Know-How in the; General Observations on the Ottoman Military Industry, 1774-1839: Problems of Organization and Standardization; Cultural Attitudes and Horse Technologies: A View on Chariots and Stirrups from the Eastern End of the Eurasian Continent

Part 2: On Maps, Astronomical Instruments, Clocks and CalendarsPatchwork - The Norm of Mapmaking Practices for Western Asia in Catholic and Protestant Europe As Well As in Istanbul Between 1; The Ottoman Ambassador's Curiosity Coffer: Eclipse Prediction with De La Hire's ``Machine'' Crafted by Bion of Paris; The Clockmaker Family Meyer and Their Watch Keeping the alla turca Time; The Adoption and Adaptation of Mechanical Clocks in Japan; Adoption and Resistance: Zhang Yongjing and Ancient Chinese Calendrical Methods; Part 3: On Localizing, Appropriating and Translating New Knowledge

Travelling Both Ways: The Adaptation of Disciplines, Scientific Textbooks and InstitutionsBetween Translation and Adaptation: Turkish Editions of Ganot's Traité; Eclecticism and Appropriation of the New Scientific Methods by the Greek-Speaking Scholars in the Ottoman Empire; Part 4: On Medicine and Medical Practices; Conveying Chinese Medicine to Seventeenth-Century Europe; Adoption and Adaption: A Study of Medical Ideas and Techniques in Colonial India; How Electricity Energizes the Body: Electrotherapeutics and its Analogy of Life in the Japanese Medical Context

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Print version: Science between Europe and Asia

978-90-481-9967-9

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Science -- Europe -- History ; Science -- Asia -- History ; Technology -- Europe -- History ; Technology -- Asia -- History ; Technology transfer -- Cross-cultural studies ; Europe -- Intellectual life ; Asia -- Intellectual life

This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well as the use of medical techniques such as pulse taking and electrotherapy. While human mobility played a significant role in the exchange of knowledge, translating European books into local languages helped the in