The Scottish enlightenment abroad : the Russells of Braidshaw in Aleppo and on the coast of Coromandel /

In The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad , Janet Starkey examines the lives and works of Scots working in the mid eighteenth century with the Levant Company in Aleppo, then within the Ottoman Empire; and those working with the East India Company in India, especially in the fields of natural history, med...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Starkey, Janet, 1948-

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

سلاسل: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

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رقم الطلب: DA812 .S73 2018

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  • Front Matter
  • "The Prospect of Aleppo" from Henry Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem (Oxford: printed at the Theater, c.1703). Signed "MB", probably by M. Burghers (artist and engraver)
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Prelude
  • Living the Scottish Enlightenment
  • From Edinburgh to Aleppo
  • With the Levant Company in Aleppo
  • After Aleppo
  • The "Literary-Artistic": Setting the Scene
  • Introducing Aleppo1 and Aleppo2
  • The Natural History of Religions, Politics and the Everyday
  • Exploring the Cosmopolitan Everyday
  • On Sophistication and Pleasure
  • Scientific Enlightenment and "New Medicine"
  • Medical Practice in Ottoman Aleppo
  • Pathology and Epidemics
  • Scientific Enlightenment, Natural History and Improvements
  • Flora and Fauna of Aleppo
  • Gardens and the Trope of Romanticism
  • Natural History in India
  • Curiosity, Wonder and Enlightenment
  • Collecting: Identification and Authentication
  • Epilogue.