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Risāla i-Shaṭranj or Chess Treatise – by Dr Amy Matthewson
Risāla i-Shaṭranj or Chess Treatise One of the more fascinating objects that is on display at the Royal Asiatic Society’s Extraordinary Endeavours: Celebrating 200 years of Communication, Collaboration and Dissemination exhibition…
William Jones
William Jones, one of the greatest linguistic prodigies of the eighteenth-century, thoroughly fluent in English, Welsh, Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit, was through the influence of his patron, the Earl…
Happy Birthday Sir William Jones
William Jones was born on this day, 28 September, in 1746. His father, also William Jones, was a mathematician from Anglesey, but living in Westminster when his son was born. Unfortunately William…
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