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sub Greecis Arabicisque Vocabulis Antiquitus editce sunt." He writes : " W 

 have from our earliest youth, desired a closer acquaintance with science, 

 although the cares of government have withdrawn us therefrom. As far as 

 we could, we delighted in spending our time in the careful reading of excellent 

 works, to the end that the mind might be enlightened and strengthened by 

 exercises, without which the life of man is wanting both in rule and in free- 

 dom (ut animse clarius vigeat instrumentum in acquisitione scientise, sine qua 

 mortalium vita non regitur liberaliter). Libros ipsos tamquam prsemium 

 amici Csesaris gratulantur accipite, et ipsos antiquis philosophorum operibus, 

 qui vocis vestrae rninisterio reviviscunt, aggregantes in auditorio vestro." .... 

 (Compare Jourdain, p. 169 178, and Friedrich von Raumer's excellent 

 Geschichte der Hohenstaufen, Bd. iii. 1841, S. 413.) The Arabs formed a 

 uniting link between ancient and modern science : without their love of 

 translation, succeeding ages would have lost great part of that which the 

 Greeks had either formed themselves, or derived from other nations. It is in 

 this point of view that the subjects which have been touched upon, though 

 seemingly purely linguistic, have a general cosmical interest. 



(S 39 ) p. 218. Michael Scot's translation of Aristotle's Historia Anima- 

 lium, and a similar work by Avicenna (Manuscript No. 6493 in the Paris 

 Library), are spoken of by Jourdain, Traductions d'Aristote, p. 135 138, 

 and by Schneider, Adnot. ad Aristotelis de Animalibus Hist. lib. ix. cap. 15. 



t 340 ) p.- 218. On Ibn-Baithar, see Sprengel, Gesch. der Arzneykunde, Th. 

 ii. 1823, S. 468 ; and Royle on the Antiquity of Hindoo Medicine, p. 28. 

 We possess, since 1840, a German translation of Ibn-Baithar, under the title 

 Grosse Zusammenstellung iiber die Krafte der bekannten einfachen Heil- und 

 N ahrungs-mittel, translated from the Arabic by J. v. Sontheimer, 2 vols. 



^') p. 219. Royle, p. 35 65. Susruta, son of Visvamitra, is consi- 

 dered by Wilson to have been a cotemporary of Rama. We have a Sanscrit 

 edition of his works (The Sus'ruta, or System of Medicine taught by Dhan 

 wantari, and composed by his disciple Sus'ruta, ed. by Sri Madhusudana 

 Gupta, Vol. i. ii. Calcutta, 1835, 1836), and a Latin translation (Sus'rutas 

 Aynrvedas, id est Medicinae Systcma a venerabili D'havantare demon stratum, 

 a Susruta discipulo compositum. Nunc pr. ex S nskrita in Latinum sermonem 

 vertit Franc. Hessler, 2 vols. Erlangse, 1844, 184?. 



f* 4 -) p. 219. Avicenna says, " Deiuuar (Deodar), of the genus 'abhel 

 (juniperus) ; also an Indian pine which yields a peculiar milk, syr deiudar 

 (fluid turpentine)." 



( 343 ) p. 219. Spanish Jews from Cordova carried the lessons of Avicennr 

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