Facets

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…

ABDALLATIF AL-BAGHDADI (عبداللطيف البغدادي‎), [Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi] (1162 – 1231)

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…

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qa…

Logan provided an updated report with the same title in 1865. Digital facsimile of the 1865 report from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

SETH, Simeon (Simeo Sethus; Συμεὼν Μάγιστρος Ἀντιοχείας τοῦ Σήθι, (1050 – )

GIRALDI, Giglio Gregorio (1479 – 1552)

First printed edition of Seth's Byzantine encyclopedia of foods, nutrition, and diatetics from plants and animals, with Greek text and Latin translation by scholar and poet Giglio Gregorio Giraldi. Simeon Seth was an …