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  • Ibn Al-Jazzar On Fevers

    by Gerrit Bos ...
    First published in 2000. Due to the author’s ongoing interest in Ibn al-Jazzar's medical compendium, called Ziid al-musiifir wa-qiit al-/:la4ir (Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary) he would like to present to the reader a critical edition with translation and introduction of the section from Bk. 7, chs. 1-6 which deals with the different kinds of fevers. Such an edition ... Read more

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  • Scientific Weather Forecasting In The Middle Ages

    The Writings of Al-Kindi

    by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett ...
    First Published in 1999. Man has always tried to find effective ways to predict the weather. Simple predictions from meteorological phenomena or from the constellations rising in the sky can be found attributed to Aristotle, and in Varro, Pliny, Ptolemy, and the parapêgmata of Classical times. However, the particular cultural situation of Baghdad in the mid-ninth century encouraged the production ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Night-Shift Ending

    A Novel

    by W Gerrit Bos ...
    If you listen carefully, you can hear the night-shift ending; the night-trains slowing, the night-men going.If you listen carefully, you can hear the night-voice sending, to lovers in cars and drunkards in bars, the new day dawning, its cool warning.If you listen carefully, you can hear the night-shift ending. WOULD YOU CHOOSE VIRTUE OR VICE? PRAISE FOR ‘THE NIGHT-SHIFT ENDING’. Professor Graeme ... Read more

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  • The Earthwise Herbal, Volume I

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  • 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden

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  • Avicenna's Medicine

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