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knowledge of law and ordinances of God and of legal divisions, e>^L>**^'f^ 

 a^Wj ; 5, religious duties and ascetics, dyfllJij ±&y}\j J^I^Jlj^riUl ; 

 6, expiation of dreams, &U[\Jt JjjG ; c. Philosophical sciences, A^i-Ji^b 

 which are first the Mathematical Sciences, «!>l*^yi or Arithmetic ^Joljj] 

 Geometry **»&*A Astronomy Lx^li*.! and music 1%*^' ; second, logic, 

 lajljJaU^Jl in which are comprehended poetry, rhetoric ^ij^ij the topica 

 &xjy and analytica kj^yyi and sophistica IfiJa-J^i ; third, Natural 

 Philosophy &ju^Jkll^l*f| which comprehends the following seven Sciences: 

 the Sciences of the first principles of a body *jJU-*srl ^Ux> ^k ; those 

 are matter, shape, time, place, and notion ; 2, the Science of the heavens 

 and of the universe JuJlj *\+~J\pls> which teaches of what matter the stars 

 and heavenly spheres are composed, how many there are, the cause of 

 their motion, whether they are subject to destruction in the same 

 manner as sublunary bodies which are composed of the four elements ; 

 3, de generatione et corruptione <}U*.ftJlj &j£J\+i* - 9 this Science treats on 

 the nature of the four elements, on the influence of the stars, on sublu- 

 nary bodies; 4, meteorology jsr\&dy± ^ ; 5, mineralogy v&UJIpl* ; 6, 

 botany oUJJl^le ; y y zoology ly'j^lij* which comprises anatomy 

 and physiology. — d, metaphysical sciences ^Jf ^jle to which belongs, 

 1, theology ; (i. e. the Science of God) ; 2 the knowledge of spirits 

 oLwla^ffl* j spirits are free from all matter, but act upon it, they are the 

 angels of God, and the spiritual spheres which encompass the spheres of 

 the heavens ; 3, the knowledge of the souls &wL»*xJl pi* souls %}jjlj u*/ J 

 dwell in the spheres of the heavens and in the elements from the ninth 

 sphere to the centre of the earth. 4, The knowledge of government 

 &*U«JUL>; 5, the science of things connected with a future state &\xJ\As. t 



10. Memoirs. An abstract of Porphyry's Isagoge in which the " six 

 words" -kLftJl <u*» are explained ; these are u*-^ ' or genus ; 2, ey 

 species ( et 5os) ; 3, u*^ ' individual (aro/xos) ; 4, jjcks'l proprium (tSiov) ; 

 5, <joj*J\ accidence (ffviifcfryicvs) 6, d^SJ\ differentia (p ia <po P a). 



11. An abstract of Aristotle's Categories, or on the "ten words" 

 ijLxi\ JSliJl^Jl or $jL*)\ o^&J' they are^Aj?^ substantia (ovaia) ; 2, 

 *xJt quantum novo* ; 3, «-ftJ^I quale (now) ; 4, oLaJl relatum (rrpos n) ; 

 5, e^M u °i (wou) ; 6, j^xjl quando (Trore) ; 7, £^-'1 situm esse (widens) ; 

 8, *£jUl habere (exetf) ; 9, l)a*j facire (,r 0i «) ; 10, J*i-^ pati (,/ao-xe^). 

 The Categories are compared by the authors with the units. 



