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    Golius's dictionary was later improved and expanded by Georg Freytag's Arabic-to-Latin dictionary in 1837. Chisholm 1911. Biography of Jacobus Golius...
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    when the Dutch Orientalist Jacobus Golius met with the China-based Jesuit Martino Martini, who was passing through Leyden. Golius knew no Chinese, but he...
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  • Dutch painter Jacobus Golius (1596–1667), Dutch mathematician Jacobus Arnoldus Graaff (1863–1927), South African politician Jacobus Henricus van 't...
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    first printed dictionary of the Arabic language in Arabic characters. Jacobus Golius, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, Leiden 1653. The dominant Arabic dictionary...
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  • Christopher Gohl (born 1974), German politician Jakob Gohl, also known as Jacobus Golius Janey Gohl (born 1956), American beauty queen Matthias Gohl, Swiss music...
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    Jacobus Golius requested an observatory in which to use it. The observatory was one of the first purpose-built observatories in Europe. Though Golius...
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    Rigel. The name Toliman originates with Jacobus Golius' 1669 edition of Al-Farghani's Compendium. Tolimân is Golius' latinisation of the Arabic name الظلمان...
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    Arabshah's history was translated into Latin by the Dutch Orientalist Jacobus Golius in 1636. As Timurid-sponsored histories, the two Zafarnamas present...
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    time was a Protestant University. He studied both mathematics with Jacobus Golius, who confronted him with Pappus's hexagon theorem, and astronomy with...
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    Greek to Arabic that had been purchased by the antiquarian scholar Jacobus Golius in Aleppo in 1626. On his death in 1696 it passed by a chain of purchases...
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