(from t. p.) Containing first, a description of the medicinal simples commonly made use of in the Diseases of Horses, with their Virtues and Manner of Operation, distributed into proper Classes, &c. Secondly, the preparations of simples, vegetable, animal and mineral ; with an Explanation of the ...

The author of this history was a Jesuit Procurator and secretary interpreter to the Bishop of Isfahan. It is a history of Persia in Safavid times up to 1727, the year of the Afghan invasion which led to the fall of the Safavid dynasty and also offers an overview on the historical processes of early ...

The legendary 17th-century Ottoman Turkish scholar Kâtip Çelebi started to write this historical work a propos of the Cretan war of 1645, and completed it as a unique summary of the history of Turkish maritime operations. The first part reports on the success of the Ottoman fleet before 1453, whil ...

Jawhari's fame rests on his dictionary Tād̲j̲ al-lug̲h̲a wa-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿarabiyya, commonly known as al-Ṣiḥāḥ or al-Ṣaḥāḥ, which represents a milestone in the development of Arabic lexicography. He used the last radical of the roots as the primary basis for the arrangament of ...

Jawhari's fame rests on his dictionary Tād̲j̲ al-lug̲h̲a wa-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿarabiyya, commonly known as al-Ṣiḥāḥ or al-Ṣaḥāḥ, which represents a milestone in the development of Arabic lexicography. He used the last radical of the roots as the primary basis for the arrangament of ...