The Arabic manuscript was discovered in 1665 by Edward Pococke the orientalist, and preserved in the Bodleian Library.

His son, Edward Pococke the Younger, translated the work into Latin, though he was only able to publish less than half of his work.

The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

** Edward Pococke, English Orientalist and biblical scholar ( d. 1691 )

Some outstanding mathematical and Orientalist works emerged at this time – notably, texts edited by Edward Pococke, the Regius Professor of Hebrew – but no university press on Laud's model was possible before the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.

A Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's work, Philosophus Autodidactus, first appeared in 1671, prepared by Edward Pococke the Younger, followed by an English translation by Simon Ockley in 1708, as well as German and Dutch translations.

The Latin translation of his work, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

A Latin translation of Philosophus Autodidactus was published in 1671, prepared by Edward Pococke the Younger.

Among his collaborators were James Ussher, John Lightfoot and Edward Pococke, Edmund Castell, Abraham Wheelocke and Patrick Young, Thomas Hyde and Thomas Greaves.

Bust of Edward Pococke in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Edward Pococke ( baptised 8 November 1604 – 10 September 1691 ) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar.

Both Edward Gibbon and Thomas Carlyle exposed some " pious " lies in the missionary work by Grotius translated by Pococke, which were omitted from the Arabic text.

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* Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail-translated into Latin by Edward Pococke the Younger as Philosophus Autodidactus

According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke ( who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop William Laud, had met Lucaris ) many of the choicest manuscripts from Lucaris ' library were saved by the Dutch ambassador who sent them by ship to Holland.

A Latin translation exists in the older edition of Edward Pococke, Historia Compendosia Dynastiarum ( Oxford, 1663 ).

A Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's work, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, first appeared in 1671, prepared by Edward Pococke the Younger.

In 1676 he was appointed chaplain to Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, ambassador-extraordinary to the king of Poland, and he sent an account of his visit to Edward Pococke in a letter, dated Dantzic, 16 December 1677, which was printed along with South's Posthumous Works in 1717.

He declined in 1691 the Oxford Hebrew chair vacated by the death of Edward Pococke, a step which he afterwards regretted.

In 1691 the death of Edward Pococke opened up to Hyde the Laudian professorship of Arabic ; and in 1697, on the deprivation of Roger Altham, he succeeded to the Regius chair of Hebrew and a canonry of Christ Church.

He sailed from England to Livorno in the company of Edward Pococke ; after a brief visit to Rome, he arrived in Istanbul ( Constantinople ) around April 1638.

A 17th century Latin translation Philosophus Autodidactus ( published by Edward Pococke ) of the Arabic philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan by the 12th century Andalusian-Islamic philosopher and novelist Ibn Tufail ( known as " Abubacer " or " Ebn Tophail " in the West ) had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

* 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.

* 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O ' Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

* 1301 – Edward of Caernarvon ( later King Edward II of England ) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.

His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.

* 1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.

* 1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

* 1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.

* 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

* 1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.

* 1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.

* 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

She becomes attached to Edward Ferrars, the brother-in-law of her elder half-brother, John.

* 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the " Old Pretender ", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

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* February 20 – Lieutenant Edward O ' Hare becomes America's first U. S. Navy WWII flying ace.

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* May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

** Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

* June 18 – United Kingdom general election, 1970: the Conservative Party wins and Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister, ousting the Labour government of Harold Wilson after nearly six years in power.

* Edward Lloyd opens the London coffee house that soon becomes a popular meeting place for shipowners, merchants, insurance brokers and underwriters.

* July 27 – Edward Heath becomes Leader of the British Conservative Party.

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