The book of Cihannuma : a 365-year-old story /
Katip Çelebi ; editör, Bülent Özükan.
- 208 pages : illustrations (color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
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.
English with documents in Ottoman.
9789752310469 (hardback)
2013324007
Geography--Early works to 1800. World maps--Early works to 1800. Cartography--Early works to 1800. Celestial sphere--Early works to 1800. Spherical astronomy--Early works to 1800. Cosmography--Early works to 1800.
Turkey--Geography--Early works to 1800. Turkey--Maps--Early works to 1800.