By Feza Günergun, Dhruv Raina
This ebook explores a number of the old and cultural points of medical, scientific and technical exchanges that happened among vital Europe and Asia. a few papers examine the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling applied sciences whereas others take care of mapping strategies, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks in addition to using scientific strategies akin to pulse taking and electrotherapy. whereas human mobility performed an important function within the alternate of data, translating ecu books into neighborhood languages helped the creation of recent wisdom in mathematical, actual and usual sciences from important Europe to its outer edge and to the center East and Asian cultures. The ebook argues that the method of transmission of data even if theoretical or useful used to be now not an easy and one-way technique from the donor to the receiver because it is frequently admitted, yet a multi-dimensional and intricate cultural strategy of choice and transformation the place historical clinical and native traditions and components. The e-book explores the difficulty from a special geopolitical point of view, particularly no longer concentrating on a unique recipient and several other issues of distribution, particularly the metropolitan centres of technology, drugs, and know-how, yet on areas which are either recipients and vendors and gives new views in keeping with newly investigated fabric for ancient reports at the go medical exchanges among assorted elements of the world.
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A´goston, Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 15–60; G. ’’ in B. Steele and T. , The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, pp. 101–133; S. Aydu¨z, XV. ve XVI. Yu¨zyılda Tophane-i Amire ve Top Do¨ku¨m Teknolojisi. Ankara: TTK, 2006, pp. 12–36. 30 G. A´goston art of war4 have brought several important treatises into light and suggest that careful study of this body of literature would help us arrive at a more informed view regarding the Ottomans’ familiarity with European literature on science and the art of war.
Cipolla, Guns and Sails in the Early Phase of European Expansion, 1400–1700. London: Collins, 1965. Reflections on the Transmission and Transformation of Technologies 21 The Case of Printing The example of agriculture showed us that merely being highly developed does not in itself enable you to make what is called progress. The example of gunpowder serves to warn us that in order to gain the advantages of some new technology it is not enough to have invented it first. What is more, it may sometimes turn out that in order for the new technology to make any real impact on your society, you need to be below a certain level of political and social development.
Cullen modern China would have had a surprisingly low-tech appearance. As the human skill input increased, the use of machinery in the fields actually decreased, so that the best farmer might use what to us seem no more than the tools of a gardener. In modern terms, we could say that software replaced hardware in large parts of Chinese agriculture. Social Effects The success of Chinese agriculture in the late imperial period is attested by the impressive growth in population supported without obvious social stress until some way into the eighteenth century.