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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 Natural History of Aleppo Volume 1 Volume 2 (1794–95) Remarks on the Voluntary Expansion of the Skin of the Neck, in the Cobra de Capello or Hooded Snake of the East Indies. (1804) S. Muthiah (2006) The first snakeman of India. The Hindu. 23 January 2006; Russell, Patrick (1796) An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of ...
Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria Through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell, 2010; The book reviews the text The Natural History of Aleppo.It then critiques the scientific information contained in that book, reviews the biographies of the authors, gives context of the era in which the book was written, and examines the European perspectives of the authors and the era ...
[2] [3] [4] The gate was referred to by Al-Muqaddasi in 985 as The Watermelon Gate, and noted by Alexander Russell in his 1756 book The Natural History of Aleppo. [5] The gate was demolished around 1900 in order to widen the road. [6] There used to be numerous exchangers and storage houses for goods near the gate, and a pine dating back to the ...
The Natural History of Aleppo; P. Peter (stratopedarches) Y. Yamhad This page was last edited on 3 March 2016, at 21:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The commercial traditions in Aleppo have deep roots in the history. The Aleppo Chamber of commerce founded in 1885, is one of the oldest chambers in the Middle East and the Arab world. According to many historians, Aleppo was the most developed commercial and industrial city in the Ottoman Empire after Constantinople and Cairo. [19]
The Ancient City of Aleppo (Arabic: مدينة حلب القديمة, romanized: Madīnat Ḥalab al-Qadīma) is the historic city centre of Aleppo, Syria. Prior to the Syrian Civil War , many districts of the ancient city remained essentially unchanged since they were initially constructed between the 11th and 16th centuries.