Crossword-Solution: ISAGOGE 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

His famous "Introduction" or "Isagoge," a very popular book in the Middle Ages, is a translation of the "Microtegni" of Galen, a small hand-book, of which a translation is appended to Cholmeley's "John of Gaddesden."(11) The first printed edition of it appeared in 1475 (see Chapter IV) at Padua.

The _Categories_ and Porphyry’s _Isagoge_ were the books of greatest service in the study of this subject; with Boëthius’ translations and expositions of Aristotle and Porphyry.

Besides the writers mentioned by Chaucer, works on fevers by Isaac the Arab, the _Antidotarium_ of Nicholas, and the _Isagoge_ of Johannicius were in general use.

But a restless eagerness for knowledge urged me farther: I lighted upon the history of ancient literature, and from that fell into an encyclopaedism, in which I hastily read Gessner's "Isagoge" and Morhov's "Polyhistor," and thus gained a general notion of how many strange things might have happened in learning and life.

These consisted of the two treatises or chapters of Aristotle called the "Categories," and the "De Interpretatione," or the Theory of Propositions; and of a book of Porphyry the Neo-Platonist, entitled 'Introduction' (_Isagoge_), and treating of the so-called Five Predicables.