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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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Descriptio peninsulæ Arabum.
Abū al-Fida Ismā'il ibn 'Ali, 1273-1331.Date: 1740]- Books
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Travels through Arabia, and other countries in the East, performed by M. Niebuhr, now a Captain of engineers in the service of the King of Denmark. Translated into English by Robert Heron. With notes by the translator; and illustrated with engravings and maps. In two volumes.
Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815.Date: 1792- Books
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The chevalier D'Arvieux's travels in Arabia the desart; written by himself, and publish'd by Mr. de la Roque: Giving a very Accurate and Entertaining Account of the Religion, Rites, Customs, Diversions, &c. of the Bedouins, or Arabian Scenites. Undertaken by Order of the late French King. To which is Added, A General Description of Arabia, by Sultan Ishmael Abulfeda, Translated from the best Manuscripts; with Notes. Done into English by an eminent hand Illustrated with Copper Plates.
Arvieux, Laurent d', 1635-1702.Date: M.DCC.XXIII. [1723]- Books
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A journal, with occasional remarks, made on a trip from Aleppo to Bussora, across the Grand Desart [sic] of Arabia. By Henry Abbott.
Abbott, Henry, active 1784-1789.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A voyage to Arabia the happy, by the way of the Eastern ocean, and the streights of the Red-Sea: perform'd by the French for the first time, A.D. 1708, 1709, 1710. Together With a particular Relation of a Journey from the Port of Moka to the Court of the King of Yemen, in the second Expedition, A. D. 1711, 1712, 1713. Also, an account of the coffee-tree, and its Fruit. Collected from the Observations of those employed in this last Voyage. Likewise an historical Treatise of the first use of Coffee, and the Progress it afterwards made both in Asia and Europe; how it was introduced into France, and whence it came to be so generally received at Paris.
La Roque, Jean de, 1661-1745.Date: 1726