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Attaining the New Concepts of the Basic Sciences Developed in
Europe One of the basic aims of science is to find new concepts.
The means for transferring new information is language, that is,
development in science is kept in language and also translated
and transferred by means of language. It is impossible to
develop semantics to form scientific concepts to perceive the
problems of science with poorly learned languages or using
idioms not developed enough to be qualified as a language of
science. Knowledge is collected by means of literature and only
when the scientific approach starts to be valued, does the
emergence of technical means needed for research becomes
possible . Figure 7: Head- physician Gevrekzâde Hasan Efendi as
represented by Ord. Prof. Dr. Süheyl Ünver. Jews were well known
in the field of medicine because they were polyglots. The 16th
century traveller Nicolas de Nicol