TY - BOOK AU - Günergun,Feza AU - Raina,Dhruv TI - Science between Europe and Asia: historical studies on the transmission, adoption and adaptation of knowledge SN - 9789048199679 (alk. paper) U1 - 300.1 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Springer Verlag KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Science KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Medicine N1 - 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 ER -