Ibrahim Muteferrika
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Ibrahim Muteferrika was a Hungarian-born Ottoman diplomat, publisher, economist, historian, Islamic theologian, sociologist, and the first Muslim to run a printing press with movable Arabic type.
Bust of Muteferrika
Sultan Ahmed III receives French ambassador Vicomte d'Andrezel at Topkapı Palace.
Great Divergence
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The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which Western Europe along with former settler colonies in Northern America and Australasia overcame pre-modern growth constraint
Ibrahim Muteferrika
…Risâle Islâmiyye (available in manuscript form) (published by [Esed Cosan] in 1993) Great Divergence Printing…
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, begun in 1163 and largely completed by 1260
Detail of a portrait of Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher (wearing spectacles), painted by Tommaso da Modena in 1352
The distribution of coal deposits shaped industrial development in Britain.
Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, circa 1670