INTRODUCTION After Science: Ottoman Practical Naturalism 3
CHAPTER 1 Istanbul and Her Sciences 33
CHAPTER 2 Istanbul’s Medreses in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 55
CHAPTER 3 The Ottoman Scholastic Field and the Sciences 83
CHAPTER 4 The Calendar: Copernicus for Tax Collectors 108
CHAPTER 5 The Recipe: An Annotated Chronology of New Medicine in the Seventeenth Century 143
CHAPTER 6 Distinction: A Social Critique of Scientific Taste 167
CHAPTER 7 Like Ants on a Watermelon:
Practical Naturalists Encounter Philosophy 183
CHAPTER 8 Maritime, Mercantile, Sacred:Empiricism and the Compass 204
CONCLUSION 223
APPENDIX 1 Extract from Tezkireci I ̇brahim,
Secencelü’l-Eflak fi Gayeti’l-I ̇drak [Mirror of the Heavens at the Edge of Understanding] (1662) 237
APPENDIX 2 Extract from I ̇brahim Müteferrika, Füyuzat-ı Mıknatısiye [Magnetic Effluvia] (1732) 241