The 'Arabick' interest of the natural philosophers in seventeenth-century England
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The 'Arabick' interest of the natural philosophers in seventeenth-century England
(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 47)
E.J. Brill, 1994
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Consists of essays by the participants of a 1986 symposium held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England deals with the remarkably widespread interest in Arabic in seventeenth-century England among Biblical scholars and theologians, natural philosophers and Fellows of the Royal Society, and others. It led to the institutionalisation of Arabic studies at Oxford and Cambridge Universities where Arabic chairs were set up, and immense manuscript collections were established and utilised. Fourteen historians examine the extent and sources of this Arabic interest in areas ranging from religion, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, philology, and alchemy to botany. Arabic is shown to have been a significant component of the rise of Protestant intellectual tradition and the evolution of secular scholarship at universities.
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