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The book of Cihannuma : a 365-year-old story / Katip Çelebi ; editör, Bülent Özükan.
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Kâtip Çelebi, 1609-1657
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Uniform title
Cihannüma.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
İstanbul : Boyut Yayınları, [2013]
©2013
Description
208 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GA1303.5.K38 B66 2013
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Subject(s)
Geography
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Early works to 1800
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World maps
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Early works to 1800
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Cartography
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Early works to 1800
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Celestial sphere
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Early works to 1800
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Spherical astronomy
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Early works to 1800
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Cosmography
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Early works to 1800
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Turkey
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Geography
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Early works to 1800
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Turkey
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Maps
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Early works to 1800
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Editor
Özükan, Bülent
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Maps
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Summary note
Text includes background on: early mapmaking; the history of the Book of Cihannuma; the printer Ibrahim Müteferrika's influence on the development of Turkish printing (with an annotated bibliography of the 1st 17 books of his output and a bibliography of works about him, as well as his pivotal role as scholar/printer of this work; a background on the history of Ottoman geography and astronomy; and the complete text in miniature facsimile pages, accompanied by commentary from original and current scholars.
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Includes reprints of original documents in Ottoman Turkish.
Other title(s)
Book of Cihannüma
ISBN
9789752310469
975231046X
LCCN
2013324007
OCLC
931858151
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