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The Natural History of Aleppo is a 1756 book by naturalist Alexander Russell on the natural history of Aleppo. In 1794 his half-brother, Patrick Russell, revised and expanded the text in a second edition. The book is significant for its quality, the contemporary interest it attracted, and for being a product of the Scottish Enlightenment. [1]
Russell sailed to Aleppo in 1740, having been appointed physician to the English factory there. He became the city's chief medical practitioner, through gaining the confidence of the local pasha. In 1754 he returned to England and two years later published his The Natural History of Aleppo, with a diary of the progress of the plague in 1742 ...
The Syrian hamster's natural habitat is in a small region of Northwest Syria near the city of Aleppo. [1] It was first described by science in the 1797 second edition of The Natural History of Aleppo, a book written and edited by two Scottish physicians living in Syria. [2] The Syrian hamster was first recognized as a distinct species in 1839. [3]
The work was partly modelled on Alexander Russell's The Natural History of Aleppo (1756). [24] Lane visited Egypt again in 1833 in order to collect materials to expand and revise the work, after the Society had accepted the publication. [25] The book became a bestseller (still in print), and Lane earned his reputation in the field of Orientalism.
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.) More modern works that include "codex" as part of their name are not listed here.
Cover of the first book in the series, E.B. Ford's famous Butterflies. The New Naturalist Library (also known as The New Naturalists) is a series of books published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics relevant to the British Isles. The aim of the series at the start was: "To interest the general reader in ...
Mount Tabor, from Maundrell's book A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter AD 1697. Henry Maundrell (1665–1701) was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman, who served from 20 December 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria.
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