The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's elements (Vol. 1 of 2) : $b 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 — Plato — John Shaqi
The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's elements (Vol. 1 of 2) : $b 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
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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.
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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.