[382] Sprenger also calls attention to this fact, in the Zeitschrift d. deutschen morgenländ. Gesellschaft, Vol. XLV, p. 367.
[383] Libri, Histoire des mathématiques, Vol. I, p. 147.
[384] "Dictant la paix à l'empereur de Constantinople, l'Arabe victorieux demandait des manuscrits et des savans." [Libri, loc. cit., p. 108.]
[385] Persian bagadata, "God-given."
[386] One of the Abbassides, the (at least pretended) descendants of ‛Al-Abbās, uncle and adviser of Moḥammed.
[387] E. Reclus, Asia, American ed., N. Y., 1891, Vol. IV, p. 227.
[388] Historical Sketches, Vol. III, chap. iii.
[389] On its prominence at that period see Villicus, p. 70.
[390] See pp. 4-5.
[391] Smith, D. E., in the Cantor Festschrift, 1909, note pp. 10-11. See also F. Woepcke, Propagation.