On the Ottoman Military-Technical Education
As a result of the developments seen in the institutionalization of the history of science as an academic discipline in Turkey in recent years, studies on the history of scientific and educational life and scientific literature have increased. In relation to these studies, the issues of military-technical education as well as the introduction of modern Western sciences into Turkey have begun to be discussed more widely. The present article deals with the studies on the technology transfer and technical education, starting from the establishment and organization of the Ottoman army. It is observed that the works in the beginning were devoted to the issue of military organization alone, while later ones were on the military-technical education within the framework of the history of Ottoman Westernization. As the theses and books which discussed separately the history of technical education increased in number, the quality of the studies in the field rose too.
MUSTAFA KAÇAR
