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Helen Pfeifer: Rarities and Marvels, 30 November 2023
‘Wonders and Rarities’: The Marvellous Book that Travelled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
by Travis Zadeh.
Harvard, 445 pp., £33.95, October,978 0 674 25845 7 Show More
by Travis Zadeh.
Harvard, 445 pp., £33.95, October,
“... in academic circles. Wonders and Rarities has been studied by art historians in particular, but Travis Zadeh sets it in the context of wider Islamic thought. There was an entire field of learning concerned with the wonders of nature, pursued both in other encyclopedias as well as in the treatises of philosophers such as Ibn Sina (also known as ... ”
