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OR, 



A COLLECTION 



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TREATISES ON THE MATHEMATICS 



AND 



SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THEM, 

 JFrom ancient inetiitctf JWanuscrtpts. 



EDITED BY 



JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ., F.R.S., F.S.A. 



&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 assistance 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. 



LONDON: 



JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND; 



J. & J. J. DEIGHTON, & T. STEVENSON, 

 CAMBRIDGE. 



1839. 



