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Tratado das operaçoens da cirugia (Treatise on Surgical Operations)
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Since the methods of conducting surgical procedures have, for many years, been perfected to the highest degree in England and we do not have any treatise on the subject written in our…

Contributor:

Jacob de Castro Sarmento

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1744

Subjects:

Medicine, Health, Education

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Medicine
Facing-page manuscript with illustration on right page depicting individual lying on operating table with two men in curly wigs in coats and breeches holding down his wrists and feet and another with his hand on patient's shoulders; and left page with Portuguese text only.
De la divina providencia, ó sea naturaleza universal (On Divine Providence, or Universal Nature)
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Reuben:You are right, for there is no way out of such dilemmas and they allow no subterfuge. However, returning to our topic, before I show you the true definition of this noun Nature, I must explain…

Contributor:

David Nieto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1702

Subjects:

Philosophy, Theology, Polemics

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Metaphysics
Documentos para todo estado e ydade, e em particular para abituar bem os moços desde sua moçidade â vertude (Documents for Every State and Age, and in Particular to Accustom Young Men from Their Youth to Virtue)
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 Turn from evil and do good. Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…

Contributor:

Isaac de Matatia Aboab

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1685

Subjects:

Family, Children, Life cycle, Charity, Oral Torah

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & Philosophy, Ethics
Tratado dos Cometas que apareceram em novembro passado de 1618 (Treatise about the Comets That Appeared in November 1618)
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In order to know whether our comet was one of the those that the astrologers described, it is necessary to…

Contributor:

Jacob Rosales

Places:

Lisbon, Portuguese Empire (Lisbon, Portugal)

Date:

1619

Subjects:

Astronomy, Astrology, Monarchy

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Astronomy