İbrahim Mütererrika, was perhaps, the first of a series of Europeans who were destined to play role in the history of Westernization of Turkey as carriers of new ideas and intermediaries between cultures. Müteferrika was the to introduce the of change and progress and modern scientific thinking into Turkey. In 1729, he established the first printing press facilities in the Islamic world in İstanbul. Initially, he published books on non-religious subjects, including politics, military strategy, magnetism, geography and astronomy. Müteferrika was not only a printer, he was also an editor and writer of books on scientific subjects. His favourite subjects were geography, physics and military tactics. He used to call himself a geographer. In 1732 he printed Katip Çelebi’s famus book of geography called Cihannümâ, to which he added maps and figures, and an introductory these ideas were not yet accepted by the Muslim scholars. Müteferrika, also discussed, for the first time in Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), Descartes’ theory of vortices, Galileo’s rejection of Aristotelian physics, and magnetism and the compass. In short, he became one of the early transmitters to Turkey of the new ideas produced by modern European science.