1848.] The King of Oudes Observatory at Luc/enow. 507 



God on earth whilst other animals are animated by evil spirits. The 

 specimen of the Ikhwan al-cafa published by the Rev. T. Thomason 

 forms part of this chapter. 



9 (22.) On the Economy of the human body. Man is a microcosmos, 

 and his body is like a well regulated city, the sovereign of which is the 

 soul. 



10 (23.) Be Sensu et Sensili. Though this chapter bears the inscrip- 

 tions of one of the works of Aristotle, it has little to do with the opini- 

 ons of that philosopher. Impressions received, by the senses are con- 

 veyed to the anterior portion of the brain where the faculty of imagina- 

 tion bX^st+hxjti] resides ; from these, they are communicated to the 

 central portion of the brain which is occupied by the faculties of reflection 

 *jSJxJ\i/r)\ ; then they are committed to memory AJaitsr^cJl, which has 

 its seat in the posterior part of the brain, &c. (compare Avicenna, Lib. I. 

 p. 35.) Astrological influences on the various parts of the body. 



1 1 (24.) On foetal life ; the authors take an astrological view of the 

 subject, naming the planets under the influence of which the foetus is 

 during every month of pregnancy. 



Reports upon His Majesty the King of Oude's Observatory at Luc- 

 know. Communicated by H. M. Elliot, Esq. Sec. to the Govern- 

 ment of India. 



To his Excellency Major General Sir. G. Pollock, G. C. B. Envoy 

 to the King of Oude, Dated Lucknow \Sth January, 1844. 



Sir, — For the information of the Right Hon'ble the Governor General 

 >f India, I have the honor to submit my report on the affairs of his 

 [ajesty's Observatory during the past year. 



Within this period, the Observatory has been rendered as complete 

 the Astronomical Department as I can expect to see it, by the 

 icquisition of a very fine Equatorial which may be usefully employed 

 >n many extra-meridional observations for which an appropriate instru- 

 lent has hitherto been wanting. It has a Telescope of 9 feet focal 

 :ngth ; the polar axis is carried round by clock work, and the hour 

 md declination circles are of 2 and 3 feet diameter. I have been under 



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