Excerpt from Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 3: With Preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences Raymond Lully was born in Majorca in 1236, and Villanova in Provence in 1235. Their writings are as obscure as they are voluminous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 1: With Preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences The first of the two folio volumes of which it consists, waszpublished m 1706. B when aasupplement to it was published, it had passed through five editions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 2: With Preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences Though the general design of this historical sketch extends from the revival of letters to the beginning of the nineteenth century, I shall, in the present Part, confine myself entirely, as has been done in the first Discourse, to the period preceding the end of the seventeenth century, or, more precisely, to that preceding the invention of the flux ionary calculus, and the discovery of the principle of gravitation - one of the most remark able epochas, withou t doubt, in the history of human knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.