Aydin Sayili

Aydin Sayili

Aydin Sayilli (* 1913; † 1993 ) was a historian of science who studied under George Sarton at Harvard. . [cite web |url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/235199 |title=Eloge: Aydin Sayili, 1913-1993|first=G. A.|last=Russell|publisher=Isis|volume=87|issue=4|date=1996-12|pages=672-675|accessdate=2008-06-17] His career was aided by chance meeting with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whom he impressed enough to receive a state-supported scholarship to attend graduate school at Harvard.

Works

"The Observatory in Islam", Arno Press, June 1981, part of The Development of Science: Sources for the History of Science Series (Advisory Editor I. Bernard Cohen ), ISBN 0-4051-3951-9

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