The Natural History of Aleppo

The Natural History of Aleppo
Author Alexander Russell, Patrick Russell
Original title The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation
Country Scotland
Subject Natural history
Publication date
 1756

The Natural History of Aleppo is a 1756 book by naturalist Alexander Russell on the natural history of Aleppo. In 1794 his half-brother, Patrick Russell, revised and expanded the text in a second edition. The book is significant for its quality, the contemporary interest it attracted, and for being a product of the Scottish Enlightenment.[1]

When the book was published it was immediately an important European record and perspective on the state of contemporary science in Syria.[2]

The book contains the earliest known description of the Syrian hamster.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Starkey, Janet Catherine Murray (4 July 2013). "Examining editions of The natural history of Aleppo : revitalizing eighteenth-century texts". era.lib.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Boogert, Maurits H. van den (2010). Aleppo observed : Ottoman Syria through the eyes of two Scottish doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell (1. publ. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199588565.
  3. ↑ Murphy, Michael R. (1985). "History of the Capture and Domestication of the Syrian Golden Hamster (Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse)". In Siegel, Harold I. The Hamster : reproduction and behavior. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 030641791X.
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