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Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos: or, Quadripartite : being four books of the influence of the stars
Newly translated from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus, with a preface, explanatory notes, and an appendix containing extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy and the whole of his Centiloquy, together with a short notice of Mr. Ranger's zodiacal…
On Aristotle's Physics 5-8
"This volume makes available for the first time in English key commentaries on Aristotle's Physics by Philoponus and Simplicius, rival Neoplatonists of the sixth century A.D." "Paul Lettinck has restored a lost commentary by Philoponus - which has…
Form and good in Plato's Eleatic dialogues: the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Plato's four dialogues are treated here for the first time as a continuous argument. In Dorter's view, Plato re-examines the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and reaffirms them, not as perfectly robust tools in the service of human…