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02598aam a2200361 i 4500 001 602218E474A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 190220t20202020pauab b 001 0 eng c 020 $a 9780822945802 020 $a 0822945800 035 $a (OCoLC)1086337602 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d EYM $d OCLCO $d L2U $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-tu--- 050 4 $a Q127.T8 $b K83 2020 082 04 $a 171/.2 $2 23 100 1 $a KuÌçuÌk, Harun $e author. 245 10 $a Science without leisure : $b practical naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732 / $c Harun KuÌçuÌk. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh, Pa. : $b University of Pittsburgh Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xv, 320 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-314) and index. 520 $a Science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, Harun KuÌçuÌk 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 what they were in the sixteenth century. It was during this tumultuous period that philosophy and theory, the more leisurely aspects of naturalism-and the pursuit of "knowledge for knowledge's sake"-vanished altogether from the city. But rather than put an end to science in Istanbul, this economic crisis was transformative, turning science into a practical matter, into something one learned through apprenticeship and provided as a service. In Science without Leisure, KuÌçuÌk reveals how Ottoman science, when measured against familiar narratives of the Scientific Revolution, was remarkably far less scholastic and philosophical and far more cosmopolitan and practical. His book explains why as practical naturalists deployed natural knowledge to lucrative ends without regard for scientific theories, science in the Ottoman Empire over the long term ultimately became the domain of physicians, bureaucrats, and engineers rather than of scholars and philosophers. 650 0 $a Science $z Istanbul $z Istanbul $x History. 650 0 $a Naturalism. 651 0 $a Istanbul (Turkey) $x History $y 17th century. 650 7 $a 02.01 history of science and culture. $0 (NL-LeOCL)077592433 $2 bcl 650 7 $a Naturalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034534 651 7 $a Turkey $z Istanbul. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204833 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200402013615.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=602218E474A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search