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The Astrolabe

An ancient instrument for solving problems of location and distance, as well as time

Astrolábon órganon is the word used in Ptolemaeus Syntaxis 5.1 to describe a form of armillary sphere consisting of both fixed and rotating rings for determining the ecliptic co-ordinates of stars. Also called astrolabe were two-dimensional representations of the celestial sphere: over fixed disks with a representation of the horizon of the earth (in each case for a specific geographic latitude) and its parallels up to the zenith lies a rotating representation of the heavens (called ‘spider’ or ‘net’) with zodiac and indicators for some of the brightest stars. On the back is an indicator (‘alidade’) with visor plates for calculating the height of the stars. The astrolabe allows its user to determine the hours of day and night, the positions of stars, and the height and depth of objects on earth (mountains, buildings, wells). The oldest extant descriptions of the flat, planispheric astrolabe come from Iohannes Philoponus, 6th century AD, and (in Syrian) from Severus Sebokht, c. 660 AD. Indirect references may date back as early as Theon (4th cent.). Between the 8th and the 9th centuries the Arabs appropriated the knowledge of the astrolabe. At the end of the 10th century and again in the 12th century, they passed it on to Western Europe, where astrolabes were constructed up until the 17th cent. Today, one Byzantine astrolabe (from 1062) is extant, as are some 750 Arabic-Islamic astrolabes and approximately the same number of European astrolabes.

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Tracing the Economic Transformation of Turkey from the 1920s to EU Accession

Tevfik F. Nas

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Publication year: 2008


ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007:	978 90 04 16792 6
ISBN-10:	90 04 16792 7

Cover:	Hardback
Number of pages:	xii, 204 pp.

List price:	€ 75.00 / US$ 111.00

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. An Overview of the Turkish Economy: 1920–80
3. Stabilization and Restructuring during the 1980s
4. The Financial Crisis of 1994 and the April 5
Austerity Plan
5. Turkish Inflation
6. The Crisis of 2001 and the Program for the Transition
to a Strong Economy
7. Economic and Policy Environment before the 2002 General Election
8. Macroeconomic Policies and Outcomes during the Post-2002 Election
Period
9. Turkey and the EU
10. Starting the Accession Talks
11. Prospects for Full Membership: A Commentary

Readership

The title will be of great interest to policy makers and the general reader and is a valuable reference for students and scholars of international economics, macroeconomics, and public policy.

About the author(s)

Tevfik F. Nas is professor of Economics at The University of Michigan-Flint. His scholarly works include Cost-Benefit Analysis (1996), Economics and Politics of the Turkish Economy (1992) and Liberalization and the Turkish Economy (1988), and over 20 published articles on macroeconomic, public policy, and international issues in various journals, including the American Political Science Review, Russian and East European Finance and Trade Journal, and Contemporary Economic Policy.

This book examines the economic transformation of Turkey, a nation that has risen from bare subsistence in the early 1920s to a thriving market economy as it approaches its EU destination. It reviews the liberal period of the 1920s, highlights Turkey’s inward-looking economic and policy environments that prevailed for more than four decades, and provides an in-depth look at the stabilization and restructuring efforts since the 1980s, focusing on the legislative and political reforms implemented to comply with the terms of entry into the EU. This is a timely title that will be of great interest to policy makers, academics, and the general public, and is a valuable reference for students and scholars of international economics, macroeconomics, and public policy.

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