Deneylerle Elektriği Tanıtan Bir Türkçe Eser: Yahya Naci Efendi’nin Risale-i Seyyale-i Berkiyye’si

Year 2008, Atilla Bir Armağanı Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1-2, 19 - 50, 01.06.2008

Feza Günergun

Abstract

In early 19th century, the teaching of sciences at the Imperial
Engineering School in Istanbul was mostly based on the material translated
from textbooks compiled for the French ‘grandes écoles’. Translations and
compilations were generally made by the professors of the school. Yahya Naci
Efendi (d.1824), a lecturer in French language and sciences, compiled in 1812 a
treatise introducing the properties of electricity through experiments. His aim
was also to show that the lightning flash and the thunderbolt were electrical
phenonemons. Yahya Naci’s main source was the chapter on electricity of
Mathurin-Jacques Brisson’s (d.1795) Traité Elémentaire de Physique, a popular
book of physics in French colleges. This translation is important because Yahya
Naci endeavoured to create Ottoman terms from Arabic regarding electricity
and because it points to the initiatives in introducing experimentation in the
teaching in the Imperial Engineering School. 

Keywords

Elektrik, Yahya Naci Efendi, Risale-i Seyyale-i Berkiyye, Mathurin-Jacques Brisson, Osmanlı Devleti

Introducing electricity through experiments: Yahya Naci Efendi’s treatise on electrical fluid

Abstract

In early 19th century, the teaching of sciences at the Imperial
Engineering School in Istanbul was mostly based on the material translated
from textbooks compiled for the French ‘grandes écoles’. Translations and
compilations were generally made by the professors of the school. Yahya Naci
Efendi (d.1824), a lecturer in French language and sciences, compiled in 1812 a
treatise introducing the properties of electricity through experiments. His aim
was also to show that the lightning flash and the thunderbolt were electrical
phenonemons. Yahya Naci’s main source was the chapter on electricity of
Mathurin-Jacques Brisson’s (d.1795) Traité Elémentaire de Physique, a popular
book of physics in French colleges. This translation is important because Yahya
Naci endeavoured to create Ottoman terms from Arabic regarding electricity
and because it points to the initiatives in introducing experimentation in the
teaching in the Imperial Engineering School. 

Keywords

Electricity, Yahya Naci Efendi, Risale-i Seyyale-i Berkiyye, Mathurin-Jacques Brisson, Ottoman Empire

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