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Due to the fact their courses in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and chosen Letters were counseled for his or her accuracy and clarity. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise at the Emendation of the mind this enlarged variation may be much more important to scholars of Spinoza's proposal.

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Timee, 79 b; cf. Taylor, Commentary on Plato's 1'imaeus, Oxford, 1928, p. 558 suiv. 151. Physique, p. 350. 152. Physique, p. 639 suivv. 153. Physique, p. 639. [ 39 ı Studies in Abu'l-Barakat Al-Baghdadi [ 40 l'air, retenons eelle-ci : si c'est uniquement l'air qui maintient les projectiles en mouvement, pourquoi est-il necessaire d'appliquer la main a la pierre, ou la corde a la fleche ? n devrait etre possible de mettre ces projectHes en mouvement, en ebranlant des grandes quantites d'air derriere eux.

Cf. Aristote, Physique, V, ı, 224. 102. Fasl XV. 103. Fasl XV; cf. fasl XX. ıo4. Fası xx. · 105. Selon Fakhr al-Din, l'argument en question peut etre · retourne contre ses auteurs. {V. Comm. n al-hikma, ms. Berlin, Wetzstein, ı, 1252, fol. 91 b. ) n suffit de supposer qu'une ligne flnie, partant du centre d'une sphere, est l'axe du monde, qui est (d'apres les peripateticiens) la ligne la plus longue qui soit. Or, par suite de la revolution de la sphere, la premiere ligne sera amenee a former un angle avec l'axe du monde Et cet angle, il n'y a pas lieu d'assigner une limite a son acuite.

Et elle possede, sur ces arguments, une grande superiorite : la critique rationnelle, que ceux-ci ne peuvent pas affronter, ne l'infirme nuHement et ne peut alleguer contre elle aucun argument valable. Des lors, peu importe que la these de l'infinitude spatiale derive de la raison ou de la fantaisie; c'est une verite acquise. Abu'l-Barakat ajoute le souhait que d'autres, ses successeurs, se servent de cette conclusion, comme il a tire profit des efforts de ses predecesseurs. Car l'epanouissement et l'accroissement des sciences sont au prix de cette collaboration intellectuelle.

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