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Preliminary Material / Introduction: The Seventeenth Century: The Age Of 'Arabics' / The Background To Arabic Studies In Seventeenth-Century England / The English Interest In The Arabic-Speaking Christians / Arabists And Linguists In Seventeenth-Century England / Edmund Castell (1606-86) And His Lexicon Heptaglotton (1669) / The Medici Oriental Press (Rome 1584-1614) And The Impact Of Its Arabic Publications On Northern Europe / Patrons And Professors: The Origins And Motives For The Endowment Of University Chairs—In Particular The Laudian Professorship Of Arabic / Arabic Manuscripts In The Bodleian Library: The Seventeenth-Century Collections / Arabick Learning In The Correspondence Of The Royal Society 1660-1677 / English Orientalists And Mathematical Astronomy / The Limited Lure Of Arabic Mathematics / The Impact Of The Philosophus Autodidactus: Pocockes, John Locke, And The Society Of Friends / English Medical Writers And Their Interest In Classical Arabic Medicine In The Seventeenth Century / Arabo-Latin Forgeries: The Case Of The Summa Perfectionis (With The Text Of Jābir Ibn Hayyān's Liber Regni) / Coronary Flowers And Their 'Arabick' Background / Index / |
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