ly
defended by Casiri, (Bibliot. Arab. Hispana, tom. i. p. 238-240.)
Most of the versions of Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, &c., are
ascribed to Honain, a physician of the Nestorian sect, who flourished
at Bagdad in the court of the caliphs, and died A.D. 876. He was at the
head of a school or manufacture of translations, and the works of his
sons and disciples were published under his name. See Abulpharagius,
(Dynast. p. 88, 115, 171-174, and apud Asseman. Bibliot. Orient.
tom. ii. p. 438,) D'Herbelot, (Bibliot. Orientale, p. 456,) Asseman.
(Bibliot. Orient. tom. iii. p. 164,) and Casiri, (Bibliot. Arab.
Hispana, tom. i. p. 238, &c. 251, 286-290, 302, 304, &c.)]

[Footnote 58: See Mosheim, Institut. Hist. Eccles. p. 181, 214, 236,
257, 315, 388, 396, 438, &c.]

[Footnote 59: The most elegant commentary on the Categories or
Predicaments of Aristotle may be found in the Philosophical Arrangements
of Mr. James Harris, (London, 1775, in octavo,) who labored to revive
the studies of Grecian literature and philosophy.]

[Footnote 60: Abulpharagius, Dynast. p. 81, 222. Bibliot. Arab. Hisp.
tom. i. p. 370, 371. In quem (says the primate of the Jacobites) si
immiserit selector, oceanum hoc in genere (algebrae) inveniet. The time
of Diophantus of Alexandria is unknown; but his six books are still
extant, and have been illustrated by the Greek Planudes and the
Frenchman Meziriac, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. iv. p. 12-15.)]

[Footnote 61: Abulfeda (Annal. Moslem. p. 210, 211, vers. Reiske)
describes this operation according to Ibn Challecan, and the best
historians. This degree most accurately contains 200,000 royal or
Hashemite cubits which Arabia had derived from the sacred and legal
practice both of Palestine and Egypt. This ancient cubit is repeated
400 times in each basis of the great pyramid, and seems to indicate the
primitive and universal measures of the East. See the Metrologie of the
laborions. M. Paucton, p. 101-195.]

[Footnote 62: See the Astronomical Tables of Ulugh Begh, with the
preface of Dr. Hyde in the first volume of his Syntagma Dissertationum,
Oxon. 1767.]

[Footnote 63: The truth of astrology was allowed by Albumazar, and
the best of the Arabian astronomers, who drew their most certain
predictions, not from Venus and Mercury, but from Jupiter and the sun,
(Abulpharag. Dynast. p. 161-163.) For the state and science of the
Persian astronomers, see Chardin, (Voyages en Perse, tom. iii. p.
162-