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Albucasis (Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi) : renowned Muslim surgeon of the tenth century / Fred Ramen.
Ramen, Fred.Date: 2006
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Secrets Reveal'd: or, an open entrance to the Shut-Palace of the King: Containing, the greatest treasure in chymistry, Never yet so plainly Discovered. / Composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself Anonymus, or Eyraeneus [sic] Philaletha Cosmopolita [pseud.]: Who, by Inspiration and Reading, attained to the Philosophers Stone at his Age of Twenty three Years, Anno Domini, 1645. Published for the Benefit of all English-men, by W.C. Esq. [i.e. William Cooper], a true lover of Art and Nature
Philalethes, EirenaeusDate: 1669- Books
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The balloon jester; or, flights of wit and humour: containing a most curious collection of all that is pleasing, entertaining, comical, Funny, Droll, and Laughable, Exhibited to the Public by those Sons of Mirth and curious Philosophers, Doctors Graham and Katterfelto; Those Geniuses of Dexterity and Magic, Sieurs Jonas and Breslaw; That ingenious and enterprising Aerial Traveller, Monsieur Biaggini, With a diverting Account of the Adventures and Reception of the Air Balloon. To which is added, The female Quaker, Propagation, and Matrimony, three admired Pieces. With new toasts and sentiments.
Date: [1784?]- Books
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British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff, who began the Reformation by his writings, to the present time: whether Statesmen, Patriots, Generals, Admirals, Philosophers, Poets, Lawyers, or Divines. In which The several Incidents and remarkable Actions of their Lives, and the Particularities of their Deaths, that could be collected from History, Family Memoirs, and Records, are related; a Catalogue and Specimen of their Writings given, with occasional Remarks; and their Characters delineated with Freedom and Impartiality. ...
Date: M,DCC,LXXVII-M,DCC,LXXX [1777-1780]- Books
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Twelve sermons preach'd on several publick occasions. By George Marsh, A.M. Vicar of Milton-Abbas in the county of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol. Tho' the preaching of Christ crucified was of old to the Jews a Stumbling-Block, and to the Greek Philosophers Foolishness; tho' this happened under the apostolical Administration, and therefore we have no Reason to wonder that it is so much slighted and despised under our weak one; yet still it is the Ordinance of God, and as necessary now for the Support of the Christian Religion, as it was at first for the propagating it in the World.
Marsh, George, 1674 or 1675-1737.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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The stage condemn'd, and the encouragement given to the immoralities and profaneness of the theatre, by the English schools, universities and pulpits, censur'd. The Arguments of all the Authors that have Writ in Defence of the Stage against Mr. Collier, Consider'd. The Sense of the Fathers, Councils, Antient Philosophers and Poets, and of the Greek and Roman States, and of the First Christian Emperors concerning the Drama, Faithfully Deliver'd. Together with The Censure of the English State and of several Antient and Modern Divines of the Church of England upon the Stage. Also Remarks on diverse late Plays, as also on those presented by the two Universities to King Charles I.
Ridpath, George, -1726.Date: 1706- Books
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A key to the French Revolution; or, an Account of Modern Jesuitism, to which is added, an essay to reduce the Principles of Unity, Indivisibility, Liberty, Equality, Social Guarantee, and Resistance of Oppression, Which Philosophers and French Constitutionalists have usurped, corrupted, and misapplied, for the Overthrow of Revealed Religion, To their original Biblic State; so as to render them correspondent with the essential Points of Christianity, the British, Constitution, and that real and genuine Liberty, intended by his Majesty's Declaration of the 29th of October, 1793. Together with Chronological Improvements Of all the Sacred Numbers contained in the Prophet Daniel and the Revelation of St. John. By Christopher Frederick Triebner, Minister of the German Lutheran Church, in Little St. Helen's.
Triebner, Christopher Frederic.Date: [1794]- Books
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The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper : wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phlegmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laide open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. Lately pend by T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: 1607- Books
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A philosophical discourse upon earthquakes, their causes and consequences; comprehending an explanation of the nature of subterraneous vapours, their amazing force, and the manner in which they operate; the Sentiments on this Head of the most learned Philosophers ancient and modern; the different Kinds of Earthquakes, distinguished by their Effects; and a copious Collection of authentic Relations digested under those Titles. To which is prefixed, a preliminary dissertation, in which is attempted a rational explanation of the rise, progress, and extent of the late dreadful earthquake, so sensibly felt through great Part of Europe, on Saturday, November 1, 1755.
Montagu, Edward Wortley, 1713-1776.Date: 1755- Books
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A rational account of the weather. Shewing the signs of its several changes and alterations, together with the philosophical reasons of them. Collected, Not only from Common Observations, but chiefly from some of the most Approved Authors, the most Celebrated Philosophers, and the most Judicious Naturalists of this and former Ages. The second edition corrected and much enlarg'd. To which are added, three essays towards accounting for I. A continued course of wet years. II. The cause of an aurora borealis. III. The cause of the plague. By John Pointer, M.A. Rector of Slapton, in the County of Northampton, and Diocese of Peterborough.
Pointer, John, 1668-1754.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
Technology and cultural values : on the edge of the third millennium / edited by Peter D. Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, and Roger T. Ames.
Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription in one volume in octavo The apologetick discourses of St. Theophilus Bp. of Antioch to Autolycus against the malicious calumniators of the Christian religion. With Hermias's Irrision Of the Pagan Philosophers: And Tertullian's Prescription Against Hereticks. Translated from their respective Originals, with Notes and Preliminary Dissertations upon each Author. By Joseph Betty A.M. Fellow of Exeter Coll. Oxon.
Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230.Date: 1722?]- Books
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A revised translation and interpretation of the sacred scriptures, after the eastern manner, from Concurrent Authorities of the Critics, Interpreters, and Commentators Copies and Versions: Shewing, That the Inspired Writings contain the seeds of the valuable sciences, being the source whence the ancient Philosophers derived them, also the most ancient histories and greatest antiquities; and are the most entertaining as well as instructing to both the curious and serious.
Date: 1799- Books
The optick glasse of hvmors. Or, the touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper / Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance itselfe, by which euery one may judge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. By T.W. Master of the Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621.Date: [1639]- Books
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The optick glasse of humors. Or, the touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper. Wherein the foure complections, sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance itselfe, by which every one may judge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature / By T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: [1631?]- Books
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An argument in defence of Christianity, taken from The Concessions of the most antient Adversaries, Jews and Pagans, Philosophers and Historians. In which is shewn, The different State of Infidelity in those early Times, from what it now is. To which is added, An apology for some of the First Christian Fathers; with Some Remarks upon the Genuineness of the Four Gospels. By Gregory Sharpe, L.L D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquarians.
Sharpe, Gregory, 1713-1771.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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Riverius reformatus: or the modern Riverius; containing the modern practice of physick. Set down in a method very near the same with that of Riverius, but accommodated to the most received Principles amongst the most Modern Philosophers, as well as Physicians; with Practical Observations annex'd to each Head or Chapter. Unto the whole are added, a treatise of venereal diseases, and the secrets of the famous Lazarus Riverius, never Publish'd before. Translated from the third edition in Latin. By a doctor of physick.
La Calmette, François de.Date: 1706- Books
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The spelling and explanatory dictionary of the English language. In which the words are properly accented and explained, the Languages from whence derived are pointed out, and The Different Parts Of Speech Specified. Also a mythological and biographical dictionary of all the heathen gods and Goddesses, Heroes and Philosophers, mentioned in the Writings of the Ancients; and a complete list of all the cities, towns, and remarkable Villages in England and Wales; Their Distances from London in measured Miles, and the days on which their markets are held. To which is prefixed an easy and concise introduction to English grammar. The Whole compiled on so general a Pian, as to make it universally useful to all, who wish properly to understand what they read and write. By the Rev, John Bentick, A.M.
Bentick, John.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper : Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. By T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: [1631?]- Books
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The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper : Wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. By T.W. Master of Artes.
Walkington, Thomas, -1621Date: 1639- Books
The limited lure of Arabic mathematics / George Molland.
Molland, GeorgeDate: 1994- Books
Arabick learning in the correspondence of the Royal Society (1660-1677) / M.B. Hall.
Hall, Marie Boas, 1919-2009Date: 1994- Books
Arabists and linguists in seventeenth century England / Vivian Salmon.
Salmon, VivianDate: 1994- Books
The English interest in the Arabic-speaking Christians / Alistair Hamilton.
Hamilton, AlistairDate: 1994- Books
Arabo-Latin forgeries : the case of the 'Summa Perfectionis' (with the text of Jabir Ibn Hayyan's 'Liber Regini') / William Newman.
Newman, William R., 1955-Date: 1994