Al-Khamis
  (The fifth),

as the grand and simple title of our ancient science, meaning

The force—­

that which causes the changes in the elementary types and their combinations—­than which no more descriptive title could be assigned to it, even in the present enlightened age.

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Errors and Anomalies

Apollonius Tyanaeus [text reads “Appolonius"]

Hercules and Bacchus (Dionysius) [text reads “Dionsyius"]

Ommiades ...  Abassides [standard spellings for this text]

Ibn Osaibe’s testimony [text reads “Ibu"]

body-physicians at the Court of Harun-al-Raschid
    [spelling as in original, but elsewhere spelled “Haroun"]

Xenophon in his Anabasis [text reads “Zenophon"]

Megasthenes [text reads “Megesthenes"]

the first of the Grecian philosophers [text reads “philosphers"]

the Hindoos believe in fourteen Menus
    [and six further occurrences of “Menu"]
    [standard spelling in this text:  correct form is “Manu"]

Libyans in war chariots with four horses [text reads “Lybians"]

under the reign of Pharoah Necho [spelling as in original]

from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean [text reads “Mediterreanean"]

Jackson in his “Antiquities” tells us that, [comma in original]

Indra instructed Dahnwantari;
Dahnwantari is also styled Kasi-rajah
    [correct form is “Dhanwantari"]