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Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam

Museum in a restored building that was the stables for Topkapı Palace.

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Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam
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Why go

It exhibits various instruments for astronomy, clocks, pumps, weaponry, a steam-powered döner spit, and so on developed in Islamic realms down the centuries, but these are modern repro, and explanations of their context are skimpy. Islamic science and technology preceded that of Europe, as they insist, but they get the tone wrong, as if that was the triumphal culmination rather than the springboard for further advance.

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