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, Volumes 1-2 |
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