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English: Title page reads
The Improvement of
HUMAN REASON,
Exhibited in the LIFE of
Hai Ebn Yokdhan:
Written in Arabick above 500 Years
ago, by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail.
In which is demonstrated
By what Methods one may, by the meer
Light of Nature, attain the Knowledg
of things Natural and Supernatural;
more particularly the Knowledg of GOD,
and the Affairs of another Life.
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Illustrated with proper Figures
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Newly Translated from the original Arabick,
by SIMON OCKLEY, A. M. Vicar of
Swaversey, in Cambridgshire.
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With an APPENDIX,
In which the Possibility of Man's attain-
ing the True Knowledg of GOD, and
Things necessary to Salvation, without
Instruction, is briefly consider'd.
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LONDON:
Printed for W. Bray at the East End of Inner-
Walk of Exeter-Change. 1711.
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Source Book pages from 1711, reprinted in Olaf Simons, Marteaus Europa (Amsterdam, 2001) = uploader
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Engraving: Edmund Powel London, Blackfriars

Title page: W. Bray London

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