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 ” Such are the words with which commences his Ars Magna, in which he frequently refers to the work here translated, in a manner to leave no doubt of its identity.

That he was not the inventor of the Art, is now well established; but that he was the first Mohammedan who wrote upon it, is to be found asserted in several Oriental writers. , in his bibliographical work, cites the initial words of the treatise now before us, and