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Obsolete, archaic, unusual and inconsistent spellings have been left in the text as in the original book. Obvious typos have been fixed, as detailed below.
Arabic words and names appear transliterated throughout the text. `Ayn is represented by `, and hamzah is represented by ´. The same word or name will appear throughout the text with and without diacriticals over the vowels, and both with and without indications of `ayn and hamzah.
My research indicates that the book _Bibl. Orient._ by Asseman, cited in the text, is referring to _Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-vaticana..._ by Giuseppe Simone Assemani (modern spelling of name).
In the following, the correction is shown in square brackets:
10 matter, probably Indian, perhaps some Eygptian[Egyptian]
11 the new Plantonists[Platonists]; whilst they exhausted their
12 to which all philosophy, and especially the Plantonic[Platonic]
15 Topica, Meterology[Meteorology], _de sensu_, the first five books
16 “parts.” These are, (1[i]) the nutritive, the power of
19 in the formation of neo-Plantonic[neo-Platonic] theory, and it
26 where the Aristotelian metaphysics and phychology[psychology]
41 commentaries of John Philoponus, himself a Monophysit[Monophysite]
43 what we call the Turkish bath is a lineal decendant[descendant] of
48 patriarch in 684 was a pupil of Severus Sekobt[Sebokt], and
50 persecution. Such was the experience of _Henanyeshu`[Henanieshu´]_
50 to the Khalif ´Abdul-Malik[`Abdul-Malik] in consequence of which
50 the humanities on the other (cf. Assemsan[Asseman] BO.)
54 luxurant[luxuriant] shoots on a soil which was saturated with
54 and the most important transmittors[transmitters] of medicine.
55 the medical writers mentioned by Dr. Leclerq[Leclerc] in his
55 _Histoire de la médicine[médecine] arabe_ (Paris, 1876) we find
59 déborder sur les régions frontiéres[frontières].
78 “Old Mosque” of Fustat (Cairo), that [is] now known as the
83 The _Mu´tazilites[Mu`tazilites]_ of whom _Wasil b. `Ata_ (d. 131)
84 possessed by him, the Mu´tazilites[Mu`tazilites] argued that it
84 eternal Qur´an as ditheists. The Mu´tazilites[Mu`tazilites]
85 moral obligations and reponsibility[responsibility] on the one