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Details of a work by Stephen Fourmont, Professor of Arabic in the Royal College of France, which is a catalogue of his various articles relating to antiquity, philology, and languages (especially Chinese)
Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1731

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RBO/17/8
Earliest possible date
1731
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'Account of a Book intitled Catalogue des Ouvrages de Mr Fourmont l'Aine etc' by John Eames, 1731, RBO/17/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_17_8/account-of-a-book-intitled-catalogue-des-ouvrages-de-mr-fourmont-laine-etc-by-john-eames, accessed on 01 December 2024

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