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John Freely

Born

Brooklyn, New York, The United States

Died

April 20, 2017

Genre

Travel, Science, History

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John Freely was born in 1926 in Brooklyn, New York to Irish immigrant parents, and spent half of his early childhood in Ireland. He dropped out of high school when he was 17 to join the U. S. Navy, serving for two years, including combat duty with a commando unit in the Pacific, India, Burma and China during the last year of World War II. After the war, he went to college on the G. I. Bill and eventually received a Ph.D. in physics from New York University, followed by a year of post-doctoral study at Oxford in the history of science. He worked as a research physicist for nine years, including five years at Princeton University. In 1960 he went to İstanbul to teach physics at the Robert College, now the Boğaziçi University, and taught there ...more

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	Istanbul: The Imperial City 3.78 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World 3.61 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire 3.55 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2009 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul 3.68 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages 3.17 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi 3.76 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light From the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World 3.94 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe by John Freely (2004-07-19) 3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evliya Çelebi'nin İstanbulu by John Freely, Müfit Günay (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homeros İçin Bir Gezi Rehberi: Türkiye ve Akdeniz Boyunca Odysseus'un İzinde by John Freely, Abdullah Yılmaz (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“According to the Greek historian Laonicus Chalkokondylas, the fall of Constantinople was seen in Rome as revenge for the fall of Troy, and Kritoboulos has Sultan Mehmet taking the same view in his visit to Troy in 1462.”
― John Freely, The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire

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“The most enduring ideas of the Milesian physicists proved to be their speculations on the nature of matter, particularly their belief that there was an arche, or fundamental substance, that endured through all apparent change. Aristotle writes that “Thales, who led the way in this kind of philosophy, says that the principle is water, and for this reason declared that the earth rests on water.” Aristotle thought that Thales chose water as the arche “from the observation that the nourishment of all creatures is moist… and water is for most moist things the origin of their nature.” His choice of water was undoubtedly because it is normally a liquid but when heated becomes a vapor and when frozen is transformed to solid ice, so that the same substance appears in all three forms of matter.”
― John Freely, Aladdin's Lamp

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“Tarihci Kantemiroğlu'na göre, IV. Murad tebdili kıyafet balk pazarını gezerken Bekri Mustafa'yı rıhtımdaki fıçılar arasında çamur içinde yuvarlanırken bulup onunla içki arkadaşı olmuştu. Bekri Mustafa'nın dini hafife alan nüktelerinden hoşlanan Sultan onu saraya götürdü ve onunla arkadaş oldu. IV. Murad içki mahmurluğundan yakındığında Bekri Mustafa ona çarenin biraz daha şarap içmek olduğunu söyleyerek sultanın alkolik olmasına ve karaciğer sirozundan ölmesine zemin hazırladı. Önce içkiden kafası titreyen Mustafa öldü ve en yakın arkadaşını kaybetmenin üzüntüsü içindeki Sultan Murad Bekri Mustafa'yı ona ilk rastladığı yer olan Haliç'teki balıkpazarına gömdürdü. Naşı bulunduğunda dindar Müslümanlar mezarının bulunduğu yerde dua etmeye başladı, Bekri ermiş olarak ünlendi ve bu yere uygun bir türbe yapılmasıyla da burası çok geçmeden bir ziyaretgâha dönüştü. Bu olay Istanbul halk ermişlerinin ermişlik öyküsüne iyi bir örnektir.”
― John Freely, Evliya Çelebi'nin İstanbulu

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