| Description |
x, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 47 |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 47
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Seventeenth Century: The Age of 'Arabick' / G. A. Russell -- I. Background to Arabic Studies in Seventeenth-Century England / P. M. Holt -- II. The English Interest in the Arabic-Speaking Christians / Alastair Hamilton -- III. Arabists and Linguists in Seventeenth-Century England / Vivian Salmon -- IV. Edmund Castell and His Lexicon Heptaglotton (1669) / H. T. Norris -- V. The Medici Oriental Press (Rome 1584-1614) and the Impact of its Arabic Publications on Northern Europe / Robert Jones -- VI. Patrons and Professors: The Origins and Motives for the Endowment of University Chairs - in Particular the Laudian Professorship of Arabic / Mordechai Feingold -- VII. Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: The Seventeenth-Century Collections / Colin Wakefield -- VIII. Arabick Learning in the Correspondence of the Royal Society 1660-1677 / M. B. Hall -- IX. English Orientalists and Mathematical Astronomy / Raymond Mercier |
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X. The Limited Lure of Arabic Mathematics / George Molland -- XI. The Impact of the Philosophus autodidactus: Pocockes, John Locke and the Society of Friends / G. A. Russell -- XII. English Medical Writers and their Interest in Classical Arabic Medicine in the Seventeenth Century / Andrew Wear -- XIII. Arabo-Latin Forgeries: The Case of the Summa perfectionis / William Newman -- XIV. Coronary Flowers and their 'Arabick' Background / John Harvey |
| Notes |
Consists of essays by the participants of a 1986 symposium held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arabic philology -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History.
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Arabists -- Great Britain -- 17th century -- History.
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Arabists -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Civilization, Arab -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Civilization -- Arab influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005911
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056854
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| Author |
Russell, G. A. (Gül A.)
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| LC no. |
94147884 |
| ISBN |
9004098887 (alk. paper) |
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