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Note 170: Curious note: a volume in the Urbino library (I.V. #285), containing Euclid's Optics, Ptolemy's De iis qui in coelo aspiciuntor, and Mahomet's De algebra et almuchabala, was copied by Michele Foresio for a certain Francesco da Borgo Sansepolcro, on 24 October 1458.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Others go as far as Mecca to Mahomet's tomb, which journey is both miraculous and meritorious.
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Acmor, and Ozimen, those four doctors, Mahomet's successors, and are subdivided into seventy-two inferior sects, as [6357] Leo Afer reports.
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The ceremonies of flinging stones to stone the devil, of eating a camel at Cairo by the way; their fastings, their running till they sweat, their long prayers, Mahomet's temple, tomb, and building of it, would ask a whole volume to dilate: and for their pains taken in this holy pilgrimage, all their sins are forgiven, and they reputed for so many saints.
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In Byron's passage, believers and sceptics are historically specific and temperamentally passionate: "'Twas Jove's'tis Mahomet's";
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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There must be a way of getting to safety, before they were poisoned by CO2, or the pressure dropped so low that the chamber became, in literal truth, a tomb like Mahomet's - suspended between Heaven and Earth.
The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979
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This was Mahomet's devise, for the purpose of establishing his Alcoran free from all liability of its becoming an object of dispute.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956
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'You might as well try to purchase one of Mahomet's old slippers.'
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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Stockton, and an angelic host with well-rounded calves in pink tights, radiant in the red light that, from some hidden regions, illuminates the aforesaid scantily clad angels, as they hang, like Mahomet's coffin,
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Backwards and forwards along this beautiful _paseo_ we went, the moon lending her enchantment, and the different bands filling the air with ravishing strains, odorous plants of the tropics lading it with perfumes, and the dark-eyed Señoras reclining in their luxurious calesas, gave as good an idea of a paradise of Mahomet's order as one could wish.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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