ṣadr al-muti’allihīn shīrāzī is the founder of a school known as transcendental philosophy. employing the heritage of his predecessors, he has opened a new way before seekers of the truth. one of the features of his philosophical school is the frequent use of the verses of the qur’ān and traditions of the infallibles (a.s.) in his philosophical works. on the basis of the philosophical principle...

the school of tafkik rejects reason and philosophical arguments to understand religious propositions and religious beliefs. they hold that the philosophical approach to understand religion is inconsistent to revealed religion. thus, the only true way to understand religion is revealed one. the purpose of this paper is to examine the approach of the school of tafkik and its arguments. in this ar...

THE Society of Arts and Sciences at Utrecht have propofed the following queftion for a prize of thirty ducats: " Is the planting of trees in great towns and their environs falutary, or hurtful to the health of the inhabitants j Do their exhalations purify or corrupt the air; and what fpecies of trees do the molt, or the leafl good or harm ? The diffcrtationsareto be fentto M. Van-Haeften, Secre...

Chemift was born at Halberftadt in 1692, and graduated at Halle in Saxony. His inaugural difcourfe was on the fulphur of metals. In 1718 he was admitted of the Academy, and about the fame time was appointed Profeffor of the Theory of Chemiftry in the College of Phyfic and Surgery at Berlin. He died on the 29th of March 1777, aged eighty-five years, leaving feveral daughters. His Lithogeogncfia ...