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Lady Hester Stanhope

Penelope Turson

Penelope Turson

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...Lady Hester Stanhope, who arrived in Istanbul in 1810, perpetuated the tradition of the well-connected, pre-Victorian, aristocratic traveller, elevating the role to new levels of eccentricity. Stanhope’s unconventional life has been...

[Letter to Sir Joseph Banks,] Latikia, 7th July, 1803, [i.e. 1813].

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A long, informative letter to Sir Joseph Banks offering her expertise on Bedouin lifestyle gained from her notorious expedition into the desert with a tribe of Bedouin Arabs in January 1813, and detailing her experiences on this trip...

Discurso pronunciado por D. Enrique Ojero de la Cruz, en la seccion de literatura del Ateneo de esta Corte para probar que a las ciencias Arabigo-Españolas se debe la restauracion de las ciencias en Europa.

Enrique Ojero de la Cruz

...The text of a lecture arguing that the influence of the high standard of scientific learning in Arabic Spain was fundamental to the subsequent revival of interest in science in Europe as a whole...

Vite di Matematici Arabi: tratte da un’opera inedita di Bernardino Baldi con note di M. Steinschneider.

Bernardino Baldi

...An offprint, with its own title and pagination, from Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche 5 (1872). It contains biographical notes of fourteen Arabic mathematicians – including philosophers, astrologers...

A Brief Introduction to the Scientific and Medical Holdings of the Arcadian Library

The Arcadian Library

The Arcadian Library

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...The field in which Arab and Persian contributions to progress was most widely acknowledged in the West was science. In spite of criticisms which started in the Renaissance and increased during the scientific revolution preceding...

Mission scientifique au Caucase études archéologiques & historiques/ par J. de Morgan.

Morgan, J. de (Jacques)

...Publication based on the findings of the author's journey to the Caucasus undertaken under the auspices of the "Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux arts" of France with the purpose of archaeological exploration. Comprises 2...

[The Stopford papers: 1836].

Robert Stopford

...One document: a list of four ships in the 'American Squadron' in the Mediterranean, 1836-1837...

Mission scientifique dans la Haute Asie 1890-1895.$nDeuxième partie: Le Turkestan et le Tibet, étude ethnographique et sociologique/ par F. Grenard.

Fernand Grenard

...Written in French, with numerous words and brief passages in Arabic, this book is the report of a detailed ethnographic and sociological study, resulting from an expedition which departed in 1891. The expedition leader, Jules-Léon Dutreuil...

[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A letter documenting the initial stages of Lady Hester Stanhope's well-chronicled sojourn east, while her plans were yet in their infancy, it relates her motives for departure, offering a programmatic rationale for her eventual residence...