the history of science and medicine

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The History of Science and Medicine

“Arcadian Library Online sheds a timely light on the oft-forgotten transmission of scientifi c and medical knowledge from the Arab and Persian world to Europe, and does so magnifi cently…”Nigel Fletcher-Jones PhD, Director, The American University in Cairo Press and Co-Chair of the 2018 PROSE Awards

The Arcadian Library is an exceptional, privately-owned library, which documents and celebrates the shared cultural heritage of Europe and the Middle East. Bringing together rare and important manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books and monographs from the ninth century onwards, the History of Science and Medicine collection documents and illustrates the history of the translation, reception and infl uence of Arabic knowledge in Europe and its lasting infl uence on Western science, technology and medicine.

About the CollectionComprising 90,000 facsimile images dating from between the ninth and twentieth centuries, including:

• IBN BUTLAN - TACUINI SANITATIS

A six part work on ‘the maintenance of hygiene’ which fi rst appeared in a Latin translation in 1531, with illustrations and two other shorter treatises, one on the same subject by Ibn Wafi d from Toledo who wrote in the eleventh century and the other by the ninth-century philosopher al-Kindi on the preparation of medicaments.

• ALFRAGANUS - BREVIS ASTRONOMO

A very rare fi rst edition of Farghānī’s best known and most infl uential work, on Ptolemaic astronomy, dated 3 September 1493.

• IBN BAKLARISH - BOOK OF SIMPLE MEDICINES

Kitab al-Musta‘ini, or Kitab al-adwiyah al-mufradah (Book of Simples), a treatise on medical remedies and drugs which draws on the learning of earlier Arab scholars such as Ibn Butlan, Al-Kindi and Al-Biruni, as well as classical Greek authors such as Galen, Dioscorides, Aristotle and Hippocrates.

• RHAZES - LIBER NONUS AD ALMANSOREM

The ninth book of Rhazes Liber ad Almansorem, which was popular as a therapeutic guide, circulated in independent copies or editions in addition to being found with the work of which it was a part.

Winner of the 2018 PROSE Awards: R.R. Hawkins Award for excellence

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