Theon of Smyrna, Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato Translated from the 1892 Greek/French edition of J. Dupuis by Robert and Deborah Lawlor and Edited and annotated by Christos Toulis and others

Publication:1979 Wizard Bookshelf; San Diego

This is a facsimile reprint of the 1892 edition of a classic work on Greek science by Theon the Ancient, who lived in the early part of the second century A.D. It includes an introduction by Lawlor and sections on Arithmetic, The Numerical Laws of Music, Quaternaries and the Decad, The Medians and Figures, as well as Astronomy.

Condition: faux leather boards, red title to cover and spine, a clean, tightly bound copy in Fine Condition