1. Evliya Çelebi & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Two Travelers in the Age of Enlightenment

2. “I was in a foreign land, so I bowed to necessity”

3. Wonder (Greek: to thaumaston) 1.a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar. 1.desire to know something; feel curious.

4. Wonder as medium Wonder linked to knowledge. A move from ignorance to knowledge

5. wanderlust : Desire to travel

6. List of German words recorded by Evliya in Vienna bread - burot Water- bosır wine - vayin Candle- lihit pen – feder Ink- tinte Paper - papir God - kot Mother Mary - marya sultan of Istanbul- kosıtin opol king - çasar Hungarian king of the Germans - lipolda inspiratory engur my wife - may firav

7. The Seyahatname “And their darling boys and lovely girls swim in the river that flows through the city. Warmed with wine and arak, they embrace one another and enjoy themselves in every nook and cranny.”

8. The Seyahatname “Indeed, the men and women do not flee from one another. The women sit together with us Ottomans, drinking and chatting, and their husbands do not say a word but rather step outside. And this is not considered shameful. The reason is that throughout Christendom women are in charge, and they have behaved in this disreputable fashion ever since the time of the Virgin Mary.”

9. The Seyahatname- Library of St. Stephan But the number is greater in this Stephan monastery in Vienna since there are numerous illustrated books in the infidel script of every language, including anatomical texts and cosmographies.. Our libraries, on the other hand, have none of these illustrated books, since ‘Pictures are unlawful’…When this humble one had a tour of it, … I was lost in astonishment, and the fragrance of musk and pure ambergis suffused in my brain.

10. St. Stephan Cathedral, Vienna

11. Automatons may appear to be almost real

12. European Ambassador in Second Court of Topkapi Palace, Antonio Guardi 1699-1760

13. “you content yourself with telling me over and over that the town is very dull. It may possibly be dull to you when every day does not present you with something new, but for me that am in arrear at least two months news, all that seems very stale with you would be fresh and sweet here.” The Turkish Embassy Letters

14. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in ‘Turkish Habit’

15. “ ‘Tis very easy to see they have more liberty than we have, no woman, of what rank so ever being permitted to go in the streets without two muslins, one that covers her face all but her eyes and another that hides the whole dress of her head, and hangs half way down her back.. You may guess then how effectually this disguises them, that there is no distinguishing the great lady from her slave..” The Turkish Embassy Letters

16. Le Bain Turc, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres 1862