Early works to 1800 Archives

Early works to 1800

Cat Calling

From a list of names for lions compiled in the tenth century by Ibn Khalawayh, an Arabic lexicographer. Names of the Lion will be published next month by Wave Books.…

Plowing the Field

by Philip Freeman,

From How to Grow Old, by Marcus Tullius Cicero. The work was written in 44 b.c. and was published in a new edition this month by Princeton University Press. Translated…

All My Children

by Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Karl Grammer,

From “The Case of Moulay Ismael — Fact or Fancy?” an Austrian study coauthored by Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer and published in Plos One.

In the Night Kitchen

by Daldianus Artemidorus,Translated by Daniel E. Harris-McCoy,

From Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica, published last year by Oxford University Press. An encyclopedic treatment of oneiromancy, or prophecy through dream interpretation, the five books were written in the second to early…

Parts and Labor

by Percival Willughby,

From Observations in Midwifery, by the English physician Percival Willughby, written around 1670 and published in 1863. One of two known copies of the book, which Willughby wrote “to inform…

Columbus

by Sophus Ruge,

An examination of the claims of Columbus (first paper)

by M. Maury,

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