An Ottoman History of Science | Nir Shafir

E124 Part 2 | While science was once understood by historians "on its own terms," i.e. as a rational means of arriving at objective truths about the natural world, over the past decades, historians of science have illustrated the numerous ways in which scientific production is rooted in social and material contexts. In part one of this two-part series on the history of science, Nir Shafir leads us in an exploration of some of the main shifts in views of science and its history. In part two, we discuss the nascent field of history of science in the Ottoman Empire and Muslim world and explore the state of current historiography and where it is headed. - See more at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/09/science-ottoman-empire-muslim-world-islamic.html#sthash.XGciAAbq.dpuf