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4 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Public Health [N02.500] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]

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1996 CE

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

YEGÜL, Fikret K. (1941 – )

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1478 CE

#7086

Halieutica, sive de piscatu. [Translated by Lorenzo Lippi, with recipes for cooking added by Lippi.]

OPPIANUS, [Ὀππιανός; Oppian of Anazarbus, of Corycus, or of Cilicia] (140 – ) LIPPIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo Lippi) (1440 – 1485)

The didactic poem on fish and fishing by Oppian of Anazarbus, a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet, survived the Middle Ages essentially in its entirety, consisting of 3500 lines in Greek. The poem was dedicated to the empe…

1800 CE

#1768

Historiae Aegypti compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio versum edendum curavit, notisque illustravit J. White.

ABDALLATIF AL-BAGHDADI (عبداللطيف البغدادي‎), [Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi] (1162 – 1231)
WHITE, Joseph (1745 – 1814)
WHITE, Joseph (1745 – 1814) POCOCKE, Edward (1648 – 1727)

Arabic-Latin bilingual text, edited by White, incorporating a translation begun by Edward Pococke the Younger (1648-1727). Abd al-Latif gave a good description of the fauna and flora of Egypt, its inhabitants and some…

2014 CE

#8296

History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.

WEXLER, Philip