Science without leisure : practical naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 /

"Science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, Harun Küçük argues, was without leisure, a phenomenon spurred by the hyperinflation a century earlier when scientific texts all but disappeared from the college curriculum and inflation reduced the wages of professors to one-tenth of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Küçük, Harun (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press [2020]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvt1sg0p