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...Rare first edition of this important work on the interpretation of dreams, sometimes attributed to Ahmad Ibn Sirin, but more likely to be the work of Albumasar (Apomasar being a further corruption of the usual Latin corruption of Abu...
...Translation by Hermann of Carinthia of: Al-Mudkhal al-kabīr ilā ʻilm ahḳām al-nujūm. With woodcuts of planetary and zodiacal signs, and astrological diagrams...
...An important group of twenty early Arabic fragmentary papyrus documents dating from the 8th-10th century and ranging in subject matter from religious quotations to medical advice, from traders' accounts to historical notes, and from...
...This is a very rare first edition of Farghānī’s best known and most influential work, on Ptolemaic astronomy, dated 3 September 1493. The text is descriptive and non-mathematical, which, along with its clear and well-organised presentation,...
...1. Ibn Buṭlān, Tacuini sanitatis (Takwīm al-ṣiḥḥa). This, Ibn Buṭlān's (d. c.1068) major work, treats in six parts of the 'Maintenance of Hygiene'; it is highly original both in content and organization. The use of tables is borrowed from...
...Rhazes (860-932), a great clinician, ranks with Hippocrates, Aretaeus, and Sydenham as one of the original portrayers of disease. His description of smallpox and measles is the first authentic account in literature, a classic text...
...First edition of Mead's work on smallpox and measles, which includes a Latin translation of Rhazes work. Mead favoured inoculation, and his great authority and influence helped towards a more general acceptance of this measure. Rhazes...