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STUDIES AND SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCEHISTORY OF OTTOMAN LITERATURE OF SCIENCEOSMANLI TIBBÎ BİLİMLER LİTERATÜRÜTARİHİHISTORY OF THE LITERATURE OFMEDICAL SCIENCES DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD4 VOL.Prepared by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Ramazan Şeşen, M. Serdar Bekar GülcanGündüz, Veysel BulutEdited by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğluİstanbul, 2008 (in Turkish with introduction in English)(Series of Studies and Sources on History of Science; 14)ISBN 978-92-9063-174-3 (vol.1), ISBN 978-92-9063-175-0 (vol.2)ISBN 978-92-9063-176-7 (vol.3), ISBN 978-92-9063-177-4 (vol.4)ISBN 978-92-9063-178-1 (set)This is the fifteenth volume of IRCICA’s bio-bibliographies onthe History of Ottoman Scientific Literature. The precedingvolumes were related to astronomy, mathematics, geography,music, military arts, and natural and applied arts, respectively.The main body of the book lists the medical works inchronological order under the names and biographies of theirauthors. The last section lists the books of which the authorsand/or translators are not known. The first three volumes haveillustrations at the end, such as reproductions of manuscripts,drawings or photographs of hospital buildings, laboratories,etc., and the fourth volume ends with indexes of personalnames, book titles, place names, names of institutions, namesof copyists, names of places mentioned in colophon, bookownership registers and waqf registers. The book covers 5607treatises and articles on medicine, dentistry, pharmacologyand veterinary sciences by 1430 authors. It is estimated thatthis publication adds considerably to the data available onmedical literature in the Muslim world.Price: US$ 130 (including post)148 IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012