Proclus

[ proh-kluhs, prok-luhs ]

noun

1. a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.

Proclus

/ ˈprəʊkləs; ˈprɒk- /

noun

1. Proclus?410485MGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?410–485 ad , Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher

Example Sentences

The commentary from a 1570 edition of the first English translation reads: “This most excellent and notable Theoreme was first invented of the greate philosopher Pithagoras, who for the exceeding ioy conceived of the invention thereof, offered in sacrifice an Oxe, as recorde Hierone, Proclus, Lycius, & Vitruvius. And it hath bene commonly called of barbarous writers of the latter time Dulcarnon.”

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It was quickly followed by Francesco Barozzi’s 1560 translation of Proclus’s commentary on the first book of Euclid, which presented the history of mathematics in terms of a series of inventions or discoveries.

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Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.

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Had Vergil had an opportunity to read Proclus, some of this might have made its way into his text, but it is unlikely that he would have absorbed the concept of discovery.

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The Platonists’ doctrines of recurrence and reminiscence were not the real problem, however; both were endorsed by Proclus, who still wrote, as the Greeks did, in terms of discovery.

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