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İBRAHİM MÜTEFERRİKA (Editing and Translation) – FÜYUZAT-I MIKNATISİYE
Muteferrika Printing, Istanbul, 1732. 45 p., 19.5 x 14 cm. 2 full-page compass engraving. Containing 23 gilts and page numbers were made according to the gilt method in the work. In its original back of the thin leather cardboard cover skin of the period. The tears on the sides of the 4 pages that did not cover the writing were restored with the papers of the period.
THE BENEFITS OF THE ”FÜYUZAT-I MIKNATISİYE ", THAT IS, THE MAGNET (COMPASS), WHICH IBRAHIM MUTEFERRIKA TRANSLATED AND COMPILED FROM VARIOUS WESTERN SOURCES INTO OTTOMAN…
THE FIRST GEOPHYSICAL BOOK OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE…
IT IS THE TENTH OF 17 BOOKS THAT MÜTEFERRIKA PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFETIME…
IN THE ORIGINAL VOLUME OF THE PERIOD…
MUTEFERRIKA SAYS IN HIS WORK THAT THE MAGNET STONE IS ONE OF THE GREAT BLESSINGS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO HIS SERVANTS, REFERRING TO THE FUNCTION AND BENEFIT OF THIS STONE IN FINDING THE DIRECTION OF THE QIBLA AND IN SHIPPING, AND THAT IT WAS NAMED “MAGNET” BECAUSE IT WAS FIRST FOUND IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MANISA… WITH 2 PAGES OF COMPASS ENGRAVING IN THE BACK OF THE WORK…
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