504 Synopsis of Mahomedan Science. 



q. d. mean science, probably as holding a place between the 

 preceding and the next mentioned. 



III. Physical science, ^*^> *k& ilm tubeeaee ; and each 

 of these three kinds of science is divided into several parts, 

 of which some are in the rank of stems or roots, <jy*>\ 

 usool, and some in the rank of branches, Piy* furooa. 



I. The stems of the first, or metaphysics, are two : — 



1st. x-«u x*a> j^-«I umoor kooleeuh namuh, universals (?) 

 C1>1j»^^-o Jl^.=>I uhwal moujoodat, ontology ; with the un- 

 derstanding that the subjects have being, as one and many, 

 necessary and possible, new and old, preceding and following, 



cause and effect ; Jj-U* ^ dvU ulut o malool, with their 

 parts, and that science is called the science of the first 

 philosophy. 



2nd. The study of the Divinity, and of the spirits and intel- 

 ligences Jyifi ^ wy*-* nufoos o uqoul, who under him are 

 ruling powers ; and they call that science theology, and the 

 branches are various, as prophecy, priesthood, sanctification 

 of spirit, divination, power over true dreams, knowledge of 

 a future state, and such like. 



II. Mathematics. The stems of this are four ; viz. geo- 

 metry, arithmetic, music, astronomy. Of the branches, four 

 are also enumerated, viz. dioptrics, cetoptrics, algebra, me- 

 chanics. 



III. Physics. The stems are eight ; viz. 1. physics of the 

 heavens ; 2. the science of simple and compound bodies, or 

 the science of the earthly or lower heavens, (i. e., of the four 

 elements of earth, water, air, and fire, simple and compound- 

 ed) ; 3. the science of growth and decay, 4>L*i _j ^y> Itoon o 



fusad ; 4. meteorology, or science of the appearance of the 

 sky, ^^.Afi .bl usar ulovee ; 5. mineralogy, or the science of 

 mines rather ; 6. botany ; 7. zoology ; 8. psychology. 



The branches are, 1 . medicine ; 2. analysis ? <J=» hul ; 3. 

 synthesis ? composition of medicines ? *>ac uqud ; 4. distilla- 



