Bibliographical history of electricity & magnetism : chronologically arranged / Researches into the domain of the early sciences, especially from the period of the revival of scholasticism, with biographical and other accounts of the most distinguished natural philosophers throughout the middle ages, comp. by Paul Fleury Mottelay ; with introduction by the late Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson and foreword by Sir R.T. Glazebrook.

  • Mottelay, Paul Fleury, 1841-
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1922
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Credit: Bibliographical history of electricity & magnetism : chronologically arranged / Researches into the domain of the early sciences, especially from the period of the revival of scholasticism, with biographical and other accounts of the most distinguished natural philosophers throughout the middle ages, comp. by Paul Fleury Mottelay ; with introduction by the late Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson and foreword by Sir R.T. Glazebrook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vol. I. pp. ioo-ioi, who quotes : Jourdain, pp. 112, 138-145, 184-185, and Wiistenfeld, Geschichte,” Gottingen, 1840. References.—Larousse, “ Diet. Univ.,” Vol. I. p. 195; “ Biog. Gen.,” Vol. I. pp. 951-952 and the references therein given; “ New Int. Encycl.,” New York, 1902, Voi. I. pp. 329-330; M. Steni- schneider, “ Al-Farabi,” St. Petersb., 1869; Friedrich Dieterici, “ Al-Farabi’s Philosophische Abhandlungen,” Leyden, 1890, and his Die Philosophic der Araber,” Leyden, 1892, 1895 ; Dr. Friedrich Ueberweg, “ Flistory of Philosophy,” tr. by Geo. S. Morris, New York, 1885, Vol. I. pp. 407, 411-412. Al-gazel—Al-Ghazzali—(1058-1111), another prominent Arabian philosopher, who was for a long time professor of theology in the Bagdad University, and became the ruler of the Sufis or Mystics, in whose behalf he travelled extensively.1 The biography in “ La Grande Encyclopedic,” Vol. XVIII. pp. 899-900, gives a full account of his most important works and several valuable references, his principal book being “ The Destruction of the Philosophers/’ which called forth a reply in one of the two most important works of Averroes, entitled “ The Destruction of Destruction.” Tholuck says : “If ever a man hath deserved the name, Ghazzali was truly a divine, and he may justly be placed on a level with Origen [Fr. Dietericii, “ Die Philosophic der Araber,” Leipzig, 1876, pp. 28-31], so remarkable was he for learning and ingenuity, and gifted with such a rare faculty for the skilful and worthy exposition of doctrine.” References.—“Encycl. Britann.,” ninth ed., Vol. I. p. 510; “ New Int. Encycl.,” Vol. I. p. 337; “ The Alchemy of Happiness,” by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali, tr. of Henry Guy Homes, Albany, 1873, pp. 6-7, also Dr. Friedrich Ueberweg, “ History of Philo¬ sophy,” tr. by Geo. S. Morris, New York, 1885, Vol. I. pp. 407 and 413-414. Alexander of Hales, so called because he made his studies at the Monastery of Hales in Gloucestershire (d. 1245), called “ Doctor Doctorum ” or “ Doctor Irrefragabilis,” also “ Theo- logorum Monarcha,” was a celebrated English theologian. He became a noted professor of philosophy and then a lecturer among the Franciscans, being succeeded in turn by his pupils, John of Rochelle (who died in 1271) and John Fidanza, better 1 See “ Omar Khayyam and his position in the History of Sufism,” to be found at end of the singularly attractive volume entitled “ Sufi Interpreta¬ tions . . .” by C. H. A. Bjerregaard, New York, 1902. For an account of Omar Khayyam—Kheyydm (died in 1123), who was a very distinguished Persian philosopher, mathematician, poet and astronomer, also Director of the Bagdad Observatory, consult the ninth ed. of the “ Encycl. Britann.,” Vol. XVII. pp. 771-772; “ La Grande Encycl.,” Vol. XXV. pp. 372-373; “ The Universal Cyclopaedia,” Chas. Kendall Adams, New York, 1900, Vol. VIII. p. 588.