Synopsis of Mahomedan Science. 503 



other public bodies in England have at length begun to 

 adopt measures for the removal of this reproach ; as a first 

 step, the Zoological Society have authorised Messrs. Cantor 

 and Co. to ship at their expense such animals as residents 

 in India may feel desirous to present to their collection, and 

 Lord Auckland has offered the Barrackpore Menagerie for 

 the temporary reception of such as may arrive in Calcutta, 

 pending the necessary arrangements for their dispatch to 

 England. Other measures we believe are in contemplation, 

 which in the course of a few years will be attended with 

 the most favourable results. 



Synopsis of Mahomedan Science, derived from the Preface to 

 the " Jama Buhadur Khanee," a Persian work on Mathe- 

 matics ; to which is added explanations of some of the scien- 

 tific terms that occur in the same work. Communicated by 

 D. Liston, Esq. 



Mathematics belonging to the division of science known as 

 ijj&j Cl*»£;sk hikmut nuzuree, which we may translate 

 speculative science, the author of the work (the Buhadur,) 

 Khanee, as a preliminary gives a general view of the know- 

 ledge so denominated. 



Hikmut nuzuree is defined to be the knowledge of enti- 

 tle ClA&y^yo moujoodat, with the right apprehension of 

 them, and demonstration of their properties, so far as appre- 

 ciable by human faculties. 



The First Division of Hikmut nuzuree is threefold, viz. 



I. Metaphysics, ***xWI <bxj Lo *.Xc Urn ma bad ultubeeuh ; 

 lit. fxsra ra (pvcriKa ; also <J*z] *Afi Hm aulee, transcendental 



science ; &x^IaJf J-j.a'1^ *.Xc Urn ma-qub-ul ul-tu-beeuh, q. d. 

 Metaphysics. 



II. Mathematics, ^XxS *Ac Urn talumee, called also 



^bj +\e ilm reazee, abstract science ; k<~j' ^ Hm woosat 



