16'INCI ASIRDA OSMANLILARDA SAAT VE TAKİYÜDDİN'İN "MEKANİK SAAT KONSTRÜYONUNA DAİR EN PARLAK YILDIZLAR" ADLI ESERİ [The Clocks in Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century And Taqi al Din's "The Brightest Stars For The Construction Of The Mechanical Clocks"]

Basımevi: Ankara Üniversitesi, 1966. Softcover. Octavo, 339 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in gray paper wraps with with black lettering to spine. Age toning to wraps, primarily to spine. Light staining and scuffing to spine. Creasing to back cover. Age toning throughout textblock. Printed in both Turkish and English. Shelved in Room G. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378967. Special Collections.