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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Moon of Enlightenment

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Hazy-Night Moon - Kumasaka

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Ishiyama Moon

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Moon at Chikubu Island - Tsunemasa

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Since the Crescent Moon I Have Been Waiting...

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Moon of the Southern Sea

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Mount Tobinosu Dawn Moon - Toda Hanbei...

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: As I Look Out into the Vast Expanse/ Can...

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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The Book of Hermes the Wise

Kitāb Hirmis al-ḥakīm (The book of Hermes the Wise) is a text on invocations, magical incantations, and medicinal draughts used for the treatment of maladies. The purported author, Hermes Trismegistus...

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The Canon of Medicine

Abu ʻAli al-Husayn Ibn Sina was born in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan) in 980 and died in Hamadan (present-day Iran) in 1037. One of the intellectual luminaries of the medieval world, known in the...

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Collection of Well-tested Medical Remedies

The genre of mujarrabat consists of collections of medical case studies, including tested medical remedies found to be useful in the treatment of the listed ailments. Therapeutic manuals of this type...

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Recovery from Diseases and Remedy for Pains

The full name of the author of Shifāʼ al-asqām wa dawāʼ al-ālām (Recovery from diseases and remedy for pains) is Khidr ibn ʻAli ibn Marwan ibnʿAli ibn Husam al-Din, originally called al-Qunawi, also...

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The Book of Elegance in the Science of Agriculture

‘Abd al-Ghani ibn Isma’il al-Nabulusi (1641‒1731, 1050‒1143 AH) was an influential Syrian author whose corpus of at least 150 known works primarily treat mystical and other theological matters. After...

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A Compendium Aiming at Preservation of Health and Repelling of Disease

This work is a manuscript copy of Jāmi‘ al-gharaḍ fī ḥifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah wa-daf‘ al-maraḍ (A compendium aimed at preserving health and repelling disease) by the Syrian physician Abu al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qub Ibn...

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The New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus

Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus) is an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn...

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Poem on the Causes and Symptoms of Fevers

Although the colophon of this manuscript copy of al-Urjūzah fī asbāb al-ḥamīyāt wa ’alāmātihā (Poem on the causes and symptoms of fevers) attributes the work to Abu ʻAli Husayn Ibn Sina (born in...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: The Village of the Shi Clan on a Moonlit...

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Shinobugaoka Moon - Gyokuensai

This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...

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Major General Ambrose Burnside

Ambrose Burnside (1824−81) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Liberty, Indiana, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1847. Unlike many generals...

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Major General Benjamin Butler

Benjamin F. Butler (1818−93) was a Massachusetts politician and Union army general in the American Civil War. Appointed an officer largely for political reasons, he had a mixed record as a military...

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