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Southern Cathedral (Nan Tang) in Beijing. The Building Shown Here Was Erected...
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The Great Wall near Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China, 1874
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View of the Walls and Gates of Beijing from the Outer Suburbs, Dotted with...
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The Gates to the Temple of Heaven. Beijing, 1874
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The Temple of Heaven Complex (Tian Tan). Beijing, 1874
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The Russian Cemetery Built in 18th Century. Beijing, 1874
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Old Manchu Gentleman in Padded Silk Jacket and Gown with a Jade Archer’s Ring...
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Palace of the Supreme Religious Authority (Hutuhta) in Ulan Bator, Mongolia,...
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for...
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The Great Wall near Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China, 1874
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A Chinese Man in Silk Brocade Jacket and Plain Gown. China, 1874-75
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for...
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Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China, 1874-75
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for...
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A Chinese Government Officer, Head of Cantonment of Cavalry, in Official...
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A Chinese Military Officer, Tidu, in Official Uniform on His Horse. Hubei...
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for...
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Map of California Shown as an Island
Joan Vinckeboons (1616/17-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company and produced maps for over 30...
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Map of a Part of the Island of Cuba and of the Bahamas
Joan Vinckeboons (1616/17-70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company and produced maps for over 30...
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Map of the Complete Island of Cuba
Joan Vinckeboons (circa 1616–70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30 years...
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Map of the Islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Joan Vinckeboons (circa 1616–70) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver born into a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company and for more than 30 years...
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The Abridged Amusement of the Calculator from "The Guide"
Much traditional scholarship holds that the period after about 1250 saw a decline in the production of scientific and philosophical works in the Arab world. This view is challenged by the impressive...
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The Little Sparkles on the Science of Calculation
The treatise preserved in this manuscript, Al-Luma‘al-yasīra fī ‘ilm al-hisāb (The little sparkles on the science of calculation), deals with Muslim inheritance. Of the social innovations that came...
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Commentary by Islam's Sheikh Zakariyya al-Ansari on Ibn al-Hā’im's Poem on...
This work is a commentary on a versified, 59-line introduction to algebra, entitled Al-Muqni‘ fī al-jabr wa al-muqābila, by the prolific and influential mathematician, jurist, and man of letters Abū...
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