Article ID: CBB000029387

Iamblichus and Proclus' Euclid commentary (1987)

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Description Contends that “it is wrong to think of Proclus as importantly Iamblichean in his Euclid commentary. He undoubtedly accepts most of Iamblichus' ideas, but in the commentary they emerge as something posterior to Proclus' concerns. The important divergences from Iamblichus are matters of philosophical style and focus rather than content.”


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Authors & Contributors
Iamblichos
Iamblichus Chalcidensis
Finamore, John F.
Waterfield, R. A. H.
Waerden, Bartel Leendert van der
Vinel, Nicolas
Journals
MHNH (Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas)
Journal of Roman Studies
Historia Mathematica
Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie
Classical Quarterly
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Teubner
Winter
Scripta Mercaturae
Scholars Press
Rusconi
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Mind and body
Numerology
Arithmetic
Geometry
Ecdotics; source study (methodology)
People
Iamblichos
Euclid
Wantzel, Pierre Laurent
Viète, François de la Bigotière
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Woodforde, James
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
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