The Adaptation of French Engineer Collignon’s Kinematics Book to Ottoman Turkish: Margossian’s Lecture Notes on Fenn-i Mihânik-i Riyâzi (Science of Mathematical Mechanics) Fransız Mühendis Collignon’un Kinematik Kitabının Osmanlıca Uyarlaması: Margosyan’ın Fenn-i Mihânik-i Riyâzî Ders Notları

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Eden A., Takıcak S. B.

Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari, cilt.25, sa.1, ss.1-28, 2024 (Scopus, TRDizin)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.26650/oba.1319211
  • Dergi Adı: Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-28
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Aram Margosyan, Collignon, history of science, kinematics, Margossian, Ottoman Empire, rational mechanics
  • Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Aram Margosyan completed his university education at the École des ponts et chausséés (EPC) in France. He held high-level bureaucratic positions in the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, he was one of the first civilian teachers of the Hendese-i Mülkiye Mektebi (HMM), the first civilian engineering school in the Ottoman Empire. The book Fenn-i Mihânik-i Riyâzî (FMR) was written by Margosyan to be taught in HMM. Margosyan’s book was examined within the scope of this study. We compared the work of Margosyan with the French kinematics books published before 1883. As a result of this research, we found extensive overlaps between the work of Margosyan and a book on kinematics by Collignon, both in form and content. Collignon, a French engineer, taught at the EPC to the class of which Margosyan was a member. Margosyan, who did not refer to Collignon’s work in his book, did not translate Collignon’s work verbatim but only adapted nearly half of the content into Ottoman Turkish. In his notes, Margosyan incorporated most of the geometrical explanations given in Collignon’s book and tried to overcome the difficulties of the period in technical writing in Ottoman Turkish. Since Collignon’s book had one of the most detailed geometric descriptions among its peers, this feature of the book might have played an important role in Margosyan’s choice to adapt it for his course.