'British Sailor.' Photographer: Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons
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Genre/Subject Matter: View from the stern of a steamship, ‘British Sailor’, at sail. Inscriptions: Below image, in pen: 'British Sailor' Below image, in pencil: ‘507’
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs
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An anonymous notebook containing texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs, interspersed with notes and a prayer. Divisions of the text: (1) Lughat al-jawhar wa-asmāʾ al-jawāhir wa-manāfiʿhā (كتاب لغة الجوهر واسماء الجواهر ومنافعها, ff.1v-20v); A text enumerating different types of gemsto...
المقالة الثالثة من كتاب جالينوس في حيلة البروء al-Maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ḥīlat al-burū’ Jālīnūs جالينوس
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Arabic version of Book Three of Galen's (جالينوس) De methodo medendi (Θεραπευτικὴ μέθοδος; حيلة البروء). The Arabic translation from the Greek was made by Ḥubaysh ibn al-Ḥasan (حبيش بن الحسن known as Ḥubaysh al-A‘sam [حبيش الأعسم]; AD 9th century), and partially revised by his uncle, Ḥunayn ibn ...
Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
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A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views.
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Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views. Publication details: Printed for the Society by Ballantyne and Co., Paul's Work, Edinburgh, 1866.
Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from 1836 to 1838. Reprinted from the Edition Originally Issued. Edited by the Secretary. Volume I.
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from 1836 to 1838. Reprinted from the Edition Originally Issued. Edited by the Secretary. Volume I. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the American Mission Press, by T Graham, 1844.
Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, August 1838 to May 1839. Edited by the Secretary. Volume II.
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, August 1838 to May 1839. Edited by the Secretary. Volume II. Publication details: none. With illustrations.
Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from June 1839 to February 1840. Edited by the Secretary. Volume III.
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from June 1839 to February 1840. Edited by the Secretary. Volume III. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the American Mission Press, by E A Webster, 1840. Illustration: sketch of Captain Hart's route to Hinglaj.
SKETCH of the country between KURACHEE and the AGHOR RIVER Showing Captain Hart's route to Hinglaj
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The map shows the coast between Kurachee [Karachi] and the Aghor [Hingol] River. The map shows settlements, with some indication of relief. Scale: four miles = 1 inch.
