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VG book, Tight. Scuffed & bumped covers. FINE text, few spots in a few margins. In Arabic, including pagination. 9"x6", 154pp. Name also spelled Khowarizmi or Khwarizmi. Written in late 10th century. Khawarizmi's 10th century book is many times called world's first encyclopedia. Certainly very early, but NOT the very first, according to a Wikipedia artical on history of encyclopedias. 5 raised ribs, two gilt Arabic words in 2nd panel. Red & black title page. 4 page index. A summary of Islamic science, subjects include math, alchemy, medicine, meteorology. Khawarizmi, 935-1002, was a statesman and poet who compiled the book in late 900s. This copy published in 1923. It was written to familiarize officials with scientific, and other, terms. Wikipedia says few transltions were made into English. ANOTHER KHAWARIZMI, of about 150 years earlier, was a noted scientist & mathematician. He was one of the first to recognize "0" as a separate & distinct number. He also brought the Hindu numbering system into the Arabic world and thence the Europeon. So, why don't we call our numbering system "Hindu" rather than "Arabic"? VG book. FINE text. Later half brown leather, brown paper boards. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001523
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