The 'Arabick' interest of the natural philosophers in seventeenth-century England / / edited by G.A. Russell.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 47
• TeilnehmendeR: Russell, G. A.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (331 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Consists of essays by the participants of a 1986 symposium held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

The medieval concern with Arabic is well established. There was, however, a 'second wave' of Arabic interest in seventeenth-century Europe, which is not widely known. The essays in this volume reveal that, contrary to all expectation, the study of Arabic was pursued by a circle of natural...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / G.A. Russell
• Introduction: The Seventeenth Century: The Age Of 'Arabics' / G.A. Russell
• The Background To Arabic Studies In Seventeenth-Century England / P. M. Holt
• The English Interest In The Arabic-Speaking Christians / Alastair Hamilton
• Arabists And Linguists In Seventeenth-Century England / Vivian Salmon
• Edmund Castell (1606-86) And His Lexicon Heptaglotton (1669) / H.T. Norris
• The Medici Oriental Press (Rome 1584-1614) And The Impact Of Its Arabic Publications On Northern Europe / Robert Jones
• Patrons And Professors: The Origins And Motives For The Endowment Of University Chairs—In Particular The Laudian Professorship Of Arabic / Mordechai Feingold
• Arabic Manuscripts In The Bodleian Library: The Seventeenth-Century Collections / Colin Wakefield
• Arabick Learning In The Correspondence Of The Royal Society 1660-1677 / M.B. Hall
• English Orientalists And Mathematical Astronomy / Raymond Mercier
• The Limited Lure Of Arabic Mathematics / George Molland
• The Impact Of The Philosophus Autodidactus: Pocockes, John Locke, And The Society Of Friends / G. A. Russell
• English Medical Writers And Their Interest In Classical Arabic Medicine In The Seventeenth Century / Andrew Wear
• Arabo-Latin Forgeries: The Case Of The Summa Perfectionis (With The Text Of Jābir Ibn Hayyān's Liber Regni) / William Newman
• Coronary Flowers And Their 'Arabick' Background / John Harvey
• Index / G.A. Russell.