Science between Europe and Asia

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 Sakul, 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, Sinasi 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 Akbas, 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