Science between Europe and Asia

Introduction, Feza Günergun, Dhruv RainaOn technologiesChristopher Cullen, Reflections on the transmission and transformation of technologies: Agriculture, printing and gunpowder between East and WestGabor Agoston, The Ottoman Empire and the technological dialogue between Europe and Asia: the case of military technology and know-how in the gunpowder ageKahraman Sakul, General observations on the Ottoman military industry, 1774-1839: Problems of organization and standardizationNanny Kim, Cultural attitudes and horse technologies: a view on chariots and stirrups from the eastern end of the Eurasian continentOn maps, astronomical instruments, clocks and calendarsSonja 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 ParisAtilla Bir, Sinasi Acar, Mustafa Kaçar, The clockmaker family Meyer and their watch keeping the alla turca timeTakehiko Hashimoto, The Adoption and adaptation of mechanical clocks in JapanPingyi Chu, Adoption and resistance: Zhang Yongjing and ancient chinese calendrical methodsOn localizing, appropriating and translating new knowledgeDhruv Raina, Travelling Both Ways: The Adaptation of Disciplines, Scientific Textbooks and InstitutionsMeltem Akbas, Between translation and adaptation: the Turkish editions of Ganot's TraitéManolis Patiniotis, Eclecticism and appropriation of the new scientific methods by the Greek-speaking scholars in the Ottoman EmpireOn medicine and medical practicesHarold J.Cook, Conveying Chinese medicine to 17th-century EuropeDeepak Kumar, Adoption and adaptation: a study of medical ideas and techniques in colonial IndiaAkiko Ito, How electricity energizes the body: Electrotherapeutics and its analogy of life in the Japanese medical contextHormoz Ebrahimnejad, What is 'Islamic' in Islamic medicine? An overview