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OR, 



A COLLECTION 



OF 



TREATISES ON THE MATHEMATICS 



AND 



SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THEM, 

 JFrom ancient inetiitctJ J^anuscripts. 



EDITED BY 



JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq., f.r.s., f.s.a., 



&c. &c. &c. 

 OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 



"I see not how the history of any science is to be conducted through the middle-age 

 period, but by the assistanc of the works of science of the middle-age writers, though 

 the contents of them, as works of science, may have now become of little value." 



Rev. J. Hunter's Monastic Libraries, Pref. p. xi. 



THE SECOND EDITION. 



LONDON 



PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL MAYNARD, 8, EARL'S COURT, 

 LEICESTER SQUARE. 



1841. 



