| Italic Title: | (see above) --> |
| The Natural History of Aleppo | |
| Caption: | Title page for The Natural History of Aleppo and parts adjacent containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighborhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation (1756) |
| Author: | Alexander Russell, Patrick Russell |
| Title Orig: | 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 |
| Pub 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]