Part 10

THE COMMENTARIES OF PROCLUS ON THE TIMÆUS OF PLATO. In the translation of this admirable work, which is most deservedly intitled A TREASURY OF ALL ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, upwards of eleven hundred necessary emendations of the text are given by the Translator. The mathematical also, as well as the philosophical reader, will find these Commentaries replete with information of a most interesting nature, which has hitherto escaped the notice of all modern writers; such as that the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, was marshy and full of breakers in the time of Plato and Aristotle, owing to the subsidency of the Atlantic Island; that the fixed stars have periodic revolutions on their axis, unknown to us; that every planet has a multitude of satellites; and many other equally admirable and interesting particulars. 2 vols. royal 4to. 5l. 5s. boards.

IAMBLICHUS ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE EGYPTIANS, CHALDÆANS, AND ASSYRIANS. 8vo. 16s.

POLITICAL PYTHAGORIC FRAGMENTS, and ETHICAL FRAGMENTS OF HIEROCLES, preserved by Stobæus. 8vo. 6s.

FROM THE LATIN.

THE FABLE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE FROM APULEIUS, with an Introduction explaining the Meaning of the Fable, and proving that it alludes to the Descent of the Soul. 8vo. 5s. boards.

PROCLUS ON PROVIDENCE AND FATE; Extracts from his Treatise entitled Ten Doubts concerning Providence; and Extracts from his Treatise on the Subsistence of Evil; as preserved in the Bibliotheca Gr. of Fabricius. See Proclus on the Theology of Plato.

Original Works.

HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION OF THE PLATONIC THEOLOGY, by the genuine Disciples of Plato. See the second vol. of Proclus on Euclid.

A DISSERTATION ON THE ELEUSINIAN AND BACCHIC MYSTERIES, in which much new and important Information, relative to those most venerable and august Institutions, is given from Greek Manuscripts. 8vo. 5s. A Second Edition of this Work is printed in Nos. XV. and XVI. of the PAMPHLETEER.

A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF ALL THE EXISTING CHALDÆAN ORACLES, with concise Explanations. See the third vol. of the Old Monthly Magazine; Nos. XXXII. XXXIII. and XXXIV. of the CLASSICAL JOURNAL.

A DISSERTATION ON NULLITIES AND DIVERGING SERIES, in which Nullities are proved to be infinitely small quantities, and the Platonic Doctrine of το εν, or the One, is illustrated. See the end of the first edition of the Translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

AN ANSWER to Dr. Gillies’s Supplement to his Translation of Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, in which the extreme Unfaithfulness of that Translation is unfolded. 12mo. 2s. 6d. sewn.

A POETICAL PARAPHRASE on the SPEECH OF DIOTIMA ON THE BEAUTIFUL, in the Banquet of Plato. See the Translation of the Fable of Cupid and Psyche.

HYMNS. See the before-mentioned Sallust, Julian, Plotinus, and Cupid and Psyche.

A new edition of HEDERIC’S GREEK LEXICON, in which many words are inserted, not found in other modern Lexicons, and an Explanation is given of some words agreeably to the Platonic Philosophy. 4to. 1803. 2l. 2s. boards.

THE ELEMENTS OF THE TRUE ARITHMETIC OF INFINITES, in which all the Propositions in the Arithmetic of Infinites invented by Dr. Wallis, relative to the Summation of Infinite Series, and also the Principles of the Doctrine of Fluxions, are demonstrated to be false; and the Nature of Infinitesimals is unfolded. 4to. 5s. sewn.

MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE; containing the Triumph of the Wise Man over Fortune, according to the Doctrine of the Stoics and Platonists; The Creed of the Platonic Philosopher; A Panegyric on Sydenham, &c. &c. 12mo. 2s. 6d. boards.

A DISSERTATION ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE, in four Books; in which his principal Physical and Metaphysical Dogmas are unfolded; and it is shown from indubitable evidence, that his Philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks. The insufficiency also of the Philosophy that has been substituted by the Moderns for that of Aristotle is demonstrated. This volume was written as an Introduction to the Translation of Aristotle’s Works. 4to. 5l. 5s. boards.

THEORETIC ARITHMETIC, in three Books; containing the Substance of all that has been written on this Subject by Theo of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Iamblichus, and Bœtius.—Together with some remarkable particulars respecting perfect, amicable, and other Numbers, which are not to be found in the writings of any ancient or modern Mathematicians. Likewise a Specimen of the manner in which the Pythagoreans philosophized about Numbers; and a Developement of their mystical and theological Arithmetic, 8vo. 14s. boards.

ORPHIC FRAGMENTS, hitherto inedited. See No. XXXIII. of the CLASSICAL JOURNAL.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Pg 14: ‘rulers that excell’ replaced by ‘rulers that excel’. Pg 81: ‘to be seperated’ replaced by ‘to be separated’. Pg 98: ‘external af-affairs’ replaced by ‘external affairs’. Footnote 51 (Pg 107): “the’ o’erflowings” replaced by “th’ o’erflowings”. Catalog: ‘EGYPTIANS, CHALDEANS’ replaced by ‘EGYPTIANS, CHALDÆANS’.