50G Notices of an Arabic Work, fy.e, [June, 



12. An abstract of Aristotle's book " de interpretatione." This 

 memoir contains also an essay on the utility of Logic. 



13. Aristotle's Analytica Priora. 



II Section. 



1 (14.) An abstract of the Analytica Posteriora. 



2 (15.) An abstract of the work de Ccelo. Besides discussing some 

 of the questions propounded by Aristotle, our authors enter much into 

 Astronomy, which like other subjects, is mystified by them. They 

 assert that the ceremony of walking round the Kabah is expressive of 

 Astronomical data. 



3 (16.) De generatione et corruptions This chapter like the pre- 

 ceding differs widely from Aristotle's work of the same name. It 

 contains a popular explanation of Aristotle's ideas on the subject, inter- 

 spersed with numerous moral reflections, and other extraneous matters. 



4 (17.) On matter, space, motion, and time. 



5 (18.) On minerals, their component parts, causes of the difference 

 of their substance ; how they are generated in the bowels of the earth ; 

 proofs that they are the first 6 productions of nature in the sublunary 

 regions, or rather the souls of the world, or universal soul, and the low- 

 est step of the ladder by which particular or differentiated souls ascend 

 from the centre of the earth to the highest sphere of the heavens, 

 where they enter into the society of angels (i. e. the highest spheres 

 of the heavens), and into eternal bliss. 



6 (19.) What nature (the soul of the world) is ; how it acts on the 

 four elements on their compound productions : animals, plants and 

 minerals ; moral application. 



7 (20.) On the various kinds of plants. On their generation ; causes 

 of the differences of plants in shape, colour, taste, &c. ; faculties of the 

 souls of plants. How one class of minerals stands in connexion with 

 plants, and one class of plants with animals, and one class of animals 

 with man, and man with angels. God is the head of the chain of 

 beings. 



8 (21.) On the various kinds of animals; their structure and consti- 

 tution. Classification of animals, on their habits ; how they educate 

 their young. Proofs that some animals are animated by angels who 

 worship man (an allusion to the Qoran) who is the representative of 



