THE PHILOSOPHICAL and MATHEMATICAL COMMENTARIES OF PROCLUS, ON THE FIRST BOOK OF EUCLID’S ELEMENTS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A History of the Restoration of PLATONIC THEOLOGY, BY THE LATTER PLATONISTS: And a Translation from the Greek of PROCLUS’S THEOLOGICAL ELEMENTS. IN TWO VOLUMES. [Illustration] VOL I. LONDON, PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR: And Sold by T. PAYNE and SON; B. WHITE and SON; J. ROBSON; T. CADELL; LEIGH and CO.; G. NICOL; R. FAULDER; and T. and J. EGERTON. 1792. [Price Two Guineas in Boards.] _Extracts from Curiosities of Literature._ Second Edition. Printed for Murray. Page 385. Mr. _T. TAYLOR_, the Platonic Philosopher and _the modern Plethon_, consonant to that philosophy, professes Polytheism.[1] The Reader is requested to correct the following Errors. Page 4. of the Dissertation, Vol. I. line 8. for _admitted_, read _omitted_. Page 16. line 8. for _from_, read _form_. Page 51. Vol. I. of the Commentaries, line 16. instead of _They are surely not the_, &c. read _For surely it cannot be said that there are_, &c. Line 17. for _but we_, read _but that we_. And line 19. for _is by much prior to_, read _is by a much greater priority_. Vol. II. page 18. line 26. for _and one is_, read _and one part is_. And line 27. for _another_, read _the other_. Page 114. line 13. for _The angle_, read _Let the angle_; and instead of _is bisected_, in the same line, read _be bisected_. Page 411. line 2. for _is filled with intellect_, read _fills intellect_. And line 3. for _it also participates_, read _also it participates_. TO THE SACRED MAJESTY OF TRUTH. PREFACE.