Science Without Leisure: Practical Naturalism in Istanbul, 1660-1732

by Harun Küçük

Science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, Harun K k 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822945800
• ISBN13: 9780822945802
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"