The two texts also differ according to lectorial perspective. The conceptual prism through which a medieval Arab scholar would have read the Kitab al-Manazir is fundamentally different from that through which his scholastic Latin counterpart would have read the De aspectibus.

I cannot forbear to touch another circumstance which might seem at first to be a miracle of Nature, beyond the causes which I have alledg'd; but having well eventilated it we shall find that it depends upon the same principles.

Cesar Delmarre baked ten ovenfuls a day, maintaining an athletic cadence, but kept a surprisingly small stock, because he had nowhere to put it, his landlady refusing to rent him a room on the second floor next to where she slept for fear that his activities would disturb her peace.

No doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-dayu, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth.