John Freely
John Freely | |
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Born | 26 June 1926 Brooklyn, New York |
Died | 20 April 2017 |
Nationality | American |
Education | New York University |
Children | 3 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Boğaziçi University |
John Freely (26 June 1926 – 20 April 2017[1]) was an American physicist, teacher, and author of popular travel and history books on Istanbul, Athens, Venice, Turkey, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire. He was the father of writer and Turko-English literary translator Maureen Freely.[2]
Contents
1 Life
1.1 Academic life
2 Works
3 References
Life
Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there and in Ireland.[3] He dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 for the last two years of World War II, serving with a commando unit in Burma and China. He did his undergraduate work at the traditional American Catholic college, Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, under the G.I. Bill.[3]
Academic life
Freely received his PhD in physics at New York University, and later pursued his postdoctoral studies at Oxford University under Alistair Cameron Crombie, the pioneering researcher in the history of Medieval European science. The principal idea he inherited from Crombie was "the continuity of western European science from the Dark Ages through Copernicus, Galileo and Newton". Following his postdoctoral work, he went in 1960 to Istanbul, Turkey, and took up a post at Robert College (later Boğaziçi University). He subsequently taught courses there in physics, the history of science and astronomy, including the course "The Emergence of Modern Science, East and West",[4] with sojourns in New York City, Boston, London, Athens, Oxford, and Venice. He returned to Boğaziçi University in 1993.
Freely was the author of more than 40 books.
Works
Travel guides:
Strolling Through Istanbul: A Guide to the City (1972; 4th edition 1987), with Hilary Sumner-Boyd; (2009) Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Complete Guide to Greece (1974), with Maureen Freely, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Naxos: Ariadne's Isle (1976; 2nd edition, 1980), Lycabettus Press
Blue Guide Istanbul (1983; 2nd edition, 1987; 3rd, 1991; 4th, 1997; 5th, 2000)
Blue Guide Boston and Cambridge (1984; 2nd edition, 1994), A & C Black Publishers Ltd
The Companion Guide to Turkey (1984; 2nd edition, 1996), Boydell Press
Crete (1988), Weidenfeld & Nicolson; new edition (1989) New Amsterdam Books
The Western Shores of Turkey: Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts (1988), John Murray Pub Ltd; 2nd edition (2004), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Classical Turkey (1990; Series: Architectural Guides for Travellers), Viking
Strolling Through Athens: Fourteen Unforgettable Walks through Europe's Oldest City (1991), Penguin; 2nd edition (2004), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Strolling through Venice: The Definitive Walking Guidebook to "La Serenissima" (1994, 2nd edition, 2008), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
The Redhouse Guide to the Black Sea Coast of Turkey (1996); photographs by Anthony E. Baker, Redhouse Press
The Redhouse Guide to the Aegean Coast of Turkey (1996), Redhouse Press
Crete: Discovering the "Great Island" (1998); Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 2nd edition (2008), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
The Eastern Mediterranean Coast of Turkey (1999), Milet Publishing Ltd
The Redhouse Guide to Western Interior of Turkey (1999), Cadogan Guides
The Bosphorus (1999), Milet Publishing Ltd
Turkey Around Marmara (1999), Cadogan Guides
The Companion Guide to Istanbul and around the Marmara (2000), Companion Guides
Galata: A Guide to Istanbul's Old Genoese Quarter Archaeology & Art Pubs (2000)
The Greek Islands (2003), John Murray Pub Ltd
The Companion Guide to Southern Turkey (2003), Companion Guides
The Princes' Isles: A Guide (2005), Islander Editions/Adali Yayinlari
The Cyclades: Discovering the Greek Islands of the Aegean (2006), I B Tauris & Co Ltd
The Ionian Islands: Corfu, Cephalonia and Beyond (2008), I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Istanbul: City of Two Continents (2008), with John Cleave, Didier Millet
History and science books:
Stamboul Sketches (1974; reprinted by Eland in 2014)
Istanbul: The Imperial City (1996)
A History of Robert College: The American College for Girls and Boğaziçi University (2000), YKY, two volumes
Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age (1992), with Augusto Romano Burelli, Thames & Hudson Ltd
Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul (1999)
The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi (2001)
Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe (2004); Harpercollins
The Emergence of Modern Science, East and West (2004), Istanbul: Boğaziçi University
Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul (2004), with Ahmet S. Çakmak; Cambridge University Press
John Freely's Istanbul (2003, ill. edition 2006), Scala Publishers
Storm on Horseback: The Seljuk Warriors of Turkey (2008); I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Children of Achilles: The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy (2009); I B Tauris & Co Ltd
The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II: Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire (2009); Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World (2009)
Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012)
The Flame of Miletus: The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How it Changed the World) (2012); I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Light from the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western World (2010); I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Wrote foreword:
Runciman, Steven, The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (2009 reprint), Tauris Parke Paperbacks- Stafford-Deitsch, Jeremy, Kingdoms of Ruin: The Art and Architectural Splendours of Ancient Turkey (2009)
- Bradford, Ernle, The Sultan's Admiral: Barbarossa - Pirate and Empire-Builder (2009), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
References
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^ Jason Goodwin (n.d.). "Enlightenment (book review)". Washington Post Book World. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
^ ab Derek Johns, "John Freely obituary", The Guardian, 5 June 2017.
^ John Freely, Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012).