I am pleased to announce the release of the important and impressive collection of essays in honor of our Turkish colleague Feza Günergun, which has just been published in Istanbul:
Intricate Pathways in the Quest for Knowledge / Festschrift for Feza Günergun
Bilgi Arayışının Karmaşık Yolları / Feza Günergun Armağanı
Istanbul: Libra Kitap, 2025, 2 vol., 1028 p. ill., bibl., index
The Introduction is bilingual English/Turkish;
half of the articles are in English or in French.
See the table of contents below.
I would be grateful if your could convince your institutions to acquire the book through their libraries to support the research and independent academic publishing in history of science in Turkey.
With best regards,
Sonja Brentjes, AIHS-IAHS President
From the back covers of vols. 1 & 2
Early attempts to investigate the history of science in Turkey appeared at the turn of the 20th century and prioritized the knowledge Europeans inherited from medieval Islamic science. Studies aiming to reveal the Turks’ prominent roles in the history of science, were followed by those examining the instruction of sciences and their applications throughout the Ottoman Empire. Feza Günergun‘s (Baytop) research focused on the transfer of European science and technology to Turkey within the framework of the modernization efforts of the Ottoman Empire: Translations, scientific and professional journals, scientific instruments, terminology, educational institutions, actors who transmitted modern sciences, trends...
Forty scholars from various countries contributed to this Festschrift to celebrate Günergun‘s retirement. In the first volume of the Festschrift, you will read the 21 research articles on less explored topics in the history of science, medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, printing, military technology, engineering, astronomy, cartography, and seafaring. The second volume contains 17 research articles by these experts on the history of mathematics, natural sciences, geology, chemistry, agriculture, scientific instruments, mechanical clocks, transmission of sciences, educational spaces and scientific journals.
Table of Contents
VOLUME I / CİLT I
Introduction / Giriş
Researching the History of Science in Turkey; Türkiye’de Bilim Tarihini Araştırmak ...................... 11-31, 33-52
Meltem Kocaman
Part 1 – Medical treatment: Physicians, drugs, and practices
Bölüm 1 – Tıbbi tedavi: Doktorlar, ilaçlar, uygulamalar
Galileo and his Medical Colleagues in Padua .................................................................................................. 55-78
William R. Shea
Bakteriyolog Kaymakam Süleyman Nuri Bey’in Avrupa Darülameliyelerindeki Cevelanı ......................... 79-124
Şeref Etker
Une Ecorce Très Convoitée: Le Quinquina ..................................................................................................125-140
Michèle Nicolas
‘Alī Münşī’nin İpekakuana Risalesi Üzerine Notlar ya da Feridun Nafiz Uzluk’un
Monografisine Küçük Bir Zeyl .................................................................................................................... 141-149
Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu
Birinci Ordu Menzil İki Numaralı Hayvan Hastanesi Albümü, 1915 ......................................................... 151-178
Nuran Yıldırım
Part 2 – Publishing, printing, and illustrating science books
Bölüm 2 – Bilim kitaplarını yayımlamak, basmak ve resimlemek
Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and its Phenomenal Publishing Success ........................... 181-206
Kostas Gavroglu
The Cultivation of a Knowing Gaze –a forgotten use of images– ............................................................... 207-218
Shigehisa Kuriyama
Traduire l’image technique, de Monge à Ishak Efendi: Les planches de l’Usulü’s-siyaga
par Rafael Kazancıoğlu ................................................................................................................................ 219-260
Patrice Bret
Printing European Mathematics Textbooks in Istanbul ............................................................................... 261-295
Gert Schubring
Keys to the ‘Keys to the Sciences’: Early Mechanics through Revealing
Historical Sources and Terms ...................................................................................................................... 297-312
Elaheh Kheirandish
Part 3 – Technics, engineers and craftsmen
Bölüm 3 – Teknikler, mühendisler, zanaatkârlar
Köprülüler Devri Osmanlı Kuşatma Teknikleri ........................................................................................... 315-330
Kahraman Şakul
A Polish Engineer as Agent of British Imperialism in Syria and Iraq? Entangled Histories of
Railways and Geopolitics (1850s-1860s) .................................................................................................... 331-362
Darina Martykánová (331-362)
Tophane Nazırı İbrahim Halil Paşa ve Osmanlı Devleti’nde Silah Üretimini
Yerlileştirilme Teşebbüsleri ......................................................................................................................... 363-391
Metin Ünver
Kabartmalar Üzerindeki Tasvirler Çerçevesinde Yeni Asur Dönemi Savaş Arabaları Saldırı
ve Kuşatma Araçları ..................................................................................................................................... 393-422
Gaye Şahinbaş Erginöz
Part 4 – Making calenders, star catalogues, and charts: Astronomers and navigators at work
Bölüm 4 – Astronomlar ve denizciler iş başında: Takvimler, yıldız katalogları ve haritalar
Lyra and Libra in Eleven Manuscripts of ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Ṣūfī’s Kitāb Ṣuwar al-Kawākib
al-Thābita of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries ..................................................................................... 425-448
Sonja Brentjes
Time and Calendar in the Byzantine Era: Social and Astronomical Accuracy ........................................... 449-461
Efthymios Nicolaïdis
Around the Globe: Magellan, Pigafetta and the Nautical Chart ‘Hazine 1825’ of Istanbul ........................ 463-489
Dejanirah Couto
On-Board Training in the Ottoman Navy: The Case of the Hüdavendigâr Frigate .....................................491-506
Kaan Üçsu
On Altıncı Yüzyıl Osmanlı Denizciliğinde Rüzgâr, Zaman ve Astronomi ................................................. 507-520
Gaye Danışan
“Geography of the East”: The Greek Translation of a Turkish Book of Geography in 1922 ..................... 521-530
George Vlahakis 521-530
Semerkant’taki Bilim Hayatı Üzerine el-Kâşî’nin Yeni Bulunan Bir Mektubu .......................................... 531-553
Mohammad Bagheri
Life Inspired by the Deeds of Great Ancestors - Büyük Ataların Yaptıklarından
İlham Alan Hayat ......................................................................................................................................... 555-567
Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev
VOLUME II / CİLT II
Part 5 – Mathematicians and mathematical texts
Bölüm 5 – Matematikçiler ve matematik metinleri
L’appendice arithmétique de Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī ......................................................................................577-601
Mahdi Abdeljaouad & Pierre Ageron
Mathématiques et Mathématiciens de l’Occident Musulman à l’Époque Ottomane (XVe-XIXe s.):
Un Nouveau Bilan .........................................................................................................................................601-622
Ahmed Djebbar
Türkistân’ın Cemâl’i: Cemâl el-Türkistânî (ö. 719/1319’dan sonra) .......................................................... 623-649
İhsan Fazlıoğlu
Part 6 – Comprehending and dicovering Nature
Bölüm 6 – Doğayı anlamak ve keşfetmek
Heraclitus of Ephesus and his Logos: The First Theory of Relativity – A Preliminary Note ..................... 653-679
A. M. Celâl Şengör
Rush on Emery at Western Anatolia: Implications for the Mineral Exploration
and Exploitation Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Empire .......................................................................... 681-707
Gönenç Göçmengil
Osmanlı Döneminde Yurtdışında Yapılan Kimya Doktoraları .....................................................................709-753
Emre Dölen
Halkalı Ziraat Mektebinde Meteoroloji: Dersler, Hocalar, Kitaplar ............................................................ 755-774
Sevtap Kadıoğlu
Part 7 – Scientific instruments and clocks
Bölüm 7 – Bilimsel aletler ve saatler
Scientific Instruments and their Usage during Ulrich Jasper Seetzen’s Voyage to the Ottoman Empire ... 777-799
Barışcan Ersöz & Meltem Kocaman
Saatçi Mehmed Şükrü’nün Nâdîde Saatleri ................................................................................................. 801-813
Şinasi Acar
Salih Zeki’nin Basılmamış Eseri Âsâr-ı Bâkiye’nin Üçüncü Cildindeki Usturlap Bahsi ............................ 815-834
Atilla Bir
Part 8 – Science: Transmission, controversies, social history and locations
Bölüm 8 – Bilim: Aktarım, tartışmalar, sosyal tarih ve mekân
What do Priority Disputes Between Center and Periphery Conceal? Reflections on Science in
Twentieth Century India .............................................................................................................................. 837-857
Dhruv Raina
“Şiir ve Fen”: Bir On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl Tartışmasında Osmanlı Vakası .................................................. 859-881
Alper Yalçınkaya
Toplumsal Tarih Perspektifinden Osmanlı Deniz Teknolojisi .................................................................... 883-904
Tuncay Zorlu
Mekteb-i Mülkiye’nin Bulunduğu Binalar ve İlgası .................................................................................... 905-931
Ali Y. Baltacıoğlu
Bir Osmanlıca Anarşizm Metni ................................................................................................................... 933-957
Bilal Yurtoğlu
Part 9 – Tracing scientific knowledge in journals and memoirs
Bölüm 9 – Dergilerde ve anılarda bilimin izini sürmek
Matematik ve Tabiat Bilimleri Dergisi (İstanbul, 1945-1947) .................................................................... 961-984
Özge Hazar
Bir Gözcünün Merceğinden Savaş ve Barış: Dr. Niyazi İsmet Gözcü’nün Anıları .................................. 985-1086
Cem Hakan Başaran
Feza Baytop Günergun - Publications / Yayınlar ............................................................................... 1087-1109
Images with memories / Anısı olan resimler ........................................................................................ 1111-1125
Notes on contributors / Yazarlar hakkında ......................................................................................... 1127-1139
Index / Dizin ............................................................................................................................................ 1141-1207