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8th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM), Ankara, Turkey, 18 - 20 April 2024, pp.281-288
In the sixteenth century, the brilliant Ottoman scientist and engineer, Taqi al-Din wrote on arithmetic, algebra, geometry, astronomy, optics and mechanics. It has been claiming that while Taqi al-Din was carrying out these extraordinarily successful works, he obtained the most of his knowledge from Western scholars. Considering the basis of his work, his education and the atmosphere in which he lived, he rather appears to have carried out these successful works independently of Western scholars. This article argues that this nonreciprocal interaction could not have occurred owing to the scientific and technical relations between Europe and the Ottomans in the time of Taqi al-Din.