Back to the future: a belated history of ‘new’ science in the Ottoman Empire

What happens when fragmentary and too much information is flowing across the world? This article sketches the emergence of one such informational flow through the ubiquitous concept of ‘new medicine’ in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire in a historiographical corrective. Rather than presenting...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Duygu Yıldırım, James Poskett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2024-01-01
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X24000092/type/journal_article