Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

F. Classification by Geographical Area and Cultural Influence
200. GENERAL WORKS ON CULTURAL AND
CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXTS
200-1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
656. GÜNERGUN, Feza, and KURIYAMA Shigehisa.
(Eds.) The Introduction of Modern Science and Technology
to Turkey and Japan. Kokusai shinpojumu,
1996. (iv + 260 pp.; ill.; bibl.) Kyoto: International
Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1998.
Contents: KURIYAMA Shigehisa and Feza GÜNERGUN,
“Preface,” i-ii; YAMADA [ref. 739]; ˙IHSANO ˇGLU [ref. 666];
NAKAOKA Tetsurô, “From Shipbuilding to Automobile
Manufacturing,” 37-66; Donald QUATAERT, “The Introduction
of Modern Technology in Ottoman Industry during the
18th and 19th Centuries,” 67-74; SHIRAHATA Yôzaburô,
“The Modernization of Transport and Communications in
Japan,” 75-86; Orhan KOLO ˇGLU, “Ottoman Modernization
in the Fields of Transportation and Communication,” 87-
96; YOSHIDA [ref. 2057]; ˙IHSANO ˇGLU [ref. 1727]; SAKAI
[ref. 1661]; DÖLEN [ref. 1676]; HASHIMOTO Takehiko,
“The Introduction of the Metric System to Japan,” 187-203;
Feza GÜNERGUN, “Standardization in Ottoman Turkey,”
205-225; ˙Ibrahim H. ÖZTÜRK, “Two Pioneers of Modern
Economic Thought in Japan and the Ottoman Empire:
Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ahmet Mithat,” 227-249; Selçuk ES-
ENBEL, “Remarks on the Modernization of Japan and Turkey
in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” 251-257.
657. MCNEIL, Maureen. “Introduction: Postcolonial
Technoscience.” Introduction to a special issue. Sci.
Cult. 14 (2005): 105–112.
Contents: SHEPHERD [ref. 3404]; MARQUES [ref. 3772];
HAYDEN [ref. 3729].
658. NAKAYAMA, Shigeru. “Colonial Science: An
Introduction.” Special Issue: Colonial Science. Hist.
Scientiarum 15 (2005): 93–96.
PYENSON [ref. 195]; HOME [ref. 2858]; BABER [ref. 848].
659. WIDDERS, Evan. “Science, Medicine, and
Criollo Culture in Late-Colonial New Spain.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 66/01 (2005): 316.
Dissertation at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
2005. Adviser: Osborne, Michael A. UMI pub. no. 3161540.
247 pp.
210. ARABIC-ISLAMIC CONTEXTS
210-1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
660. BURCAK, Berrak. “Science, a Remedy for All
Ills. Healing ‘The Sick Man of Europe’: A Case for
Ottoman Scientism.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/11 (2005):
4319.
Dissertation at Princeton University, 2005. Adviser: Hanioglu,
M. Sukru. UMI pub. no. 3154534. 168 pp.
661. ENDRESS, Gerhard. “The Language of Demonstration:
Translating Science and the Formation of
Terminology in Arabic Philosophy and Science.”
Early Sci. Med. 7 (2002): 231–255.
662. FAKHRY, Majid. Averroes (Ibn Rushd) : His
Life, Works and Influence. (xvi + 187 p.: ill.) Oxford:
Oneworld, 2001. ISBN: 1851682694.
663. FURLOW, Christopher A. “Islam, Science,
and Modernity: From Northern Virginia to Kuala
Lumpur.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 67/01 (2006): 235.
Dissertation at the University of Florida, 2005. Adviser:
Magnarella, Paul J. UMI pub. no. 3204388. 173 pp.
664. GRASSHOFF, Gerd. “Contextualizing the History
of Islamic Sciences.” Early Sci. Med. 7 (2002):
300–310.
665. GUTAS, Dimitri. “Certainty, Doubt, Error:
Comments on the Epistemological Foundations of
Medieval Arabic Science.” Early Sci. Med. 7 (2002):
276–289.
666. ˙IHSANO ˇGLU, Ekmeleddin. “Modernization Efforts
in Science, Technology and Industry in the Ottoman
Empire (18th and 19th centuries).” In GÜNER-
GUN and KURIYAMA [ref. 656], 15–35.
667. IRZIK, Gürol, and Güven GÜZELDERE. (Eds.)
Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of
Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
(xvii + 308 pp.; bibl.) New York: Springer, 2005.
ISBN: 140203332X.
Several sections deal with modern philosophy of science
written by Turkish scholars. Other chapters are historically
oriented. Contributors of the philosophical chapters
include: Gürol IRZIK; Güven GÜZELDERE; Teo
GRÜNBERG; Hüseyin YILMAZ; Yalçin KOÇ; Ümit YALÇIN;
David GRÜNBERG; Erdinç SAYAN; Celal SENGÖR; Samet
BAGÇE; Ilhan INAN; Karanfil SOYHUN; Murat AYDEDE;
Arda DENKEL; Sun DEMIRLI; and Berent ENÇ. Historical
chapters are as follows (from the publisher): H. Günhan
DANISMAN and Osman R. BAHADIR, “Late Ottoman and
Early Republican Science Periodicals: Center and Periphery
Relationship in Dissemimation of Knowledge”; Ekmeleddin
˙IHSANO ˇGLU, “Institutionalization of Science in the Medreses
of pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Turkey”; Berna KILINÇ, “Ottoman
Science Studies—A Review”.
668. JACQUART, Danielle. L’épopée de la science
arabe. Découvertes Gallimard, Série Sciences et
techniques, 479. (127 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Paris:
Gallimard, 2005. ISBN: 2070318273.
Broad survey of science in the Arab world from the 9th to the
15th centuries.
669. LEJBOWICZ, Max. “Pierre Duhem et l’histoire
des sciences arabes.” Special Issue: La Pensée Scientifique
en Question: Autour de Pierre Duhem
[ref. 104]. Rev. Quest. Sci. 175 (2004): 59–83.
210-29. SCIENCE AND WAR
670. ˙IHSANO ˇGLU, Ekmeleddin. (Ed.) Osmanli
askerlik literatürü tarihi. Translated title: [History of
military art and science literature during the Ottoman
period.] In Turkish. 2 vol. Ilim tarihi kaynaklar
ve arastirmalar serisi, 12; Osmanli bilim tarihi literatürü
serisi, 5. (1290 pp; ill.; bibl.; index.) Istanbul:
Islam Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Arastirma Merkezi (IR-
CICA), 2003. ISBN: 9290631341 (set).