Format:
Book
Title:
Mirage : Napoleon's scientists and the unveiling of Egypt / Nina Burleigh.
Author:
Burleigh, Nina.
Call Number:
962.03 Burleigh
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Harper, c2007.
Description:
xv, 286 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Egypt -- History -- French occupation, 1798-1801.
Egypt -- Antiquities.
Egyptology -- History.
Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801 -- Campaigns -- Egypt.
Contents:
The general -- The geometer and the chemist -- The inventor -- The institute -- The engineers -- The doctors -- The mathematician -- The artist -- The naturalist -- The zoologist -- The stone -- The book -- Epilogue: From Egyptomania to Egyptology.
ISBN:
9780060597672
0060597674