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Science between Europe and Asia: historical studies on the transmission, adoption and adaptation of knowledge/ edited by Feza Günergun and Dhruv Raina.

Contributor(s): Günergun, Feza | Raina, DhruvMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Springer Verlag, c2011Description: xiii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789048199679 (alk. paper); 9048199670 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Diffusion of innovations | Science -- History | Science -- Philosophy | MedicineDDC classification: 300.1

Contents:

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 Gunpowder Age 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 Patchwork – The Norm of Mapmaking Practices for Western Asia in Catholic and Protestant Europe As Well As in Istanbul Between 1550 and 1750? 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 Travelling Both Ways: The Adaptation of Disciplines, Scientific Textbooks and Institutions Between 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 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 What is ‘Islamic’ in Islamic Medicine? An Overview

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	300.1 GUN/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P19323

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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 Gunpowder Age

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

Patchwork – The Norm of Mapmaking Practices for Western Asia in Catholic and Protestant Europe As Well As in Istanbul Between 1550 and 1750?

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

Travelling Both Ways: The Adaptation of Disciplines, Scientific Textbooks and Institutions

Between 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

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

What is ‘Islamic’ in Islamic Medicine? An Overview

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