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THEORETIC ARITHMETIC IN THREE BOOKS; ‘CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF ALL THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON THIS SUBJECT BY ‘THEO OF SMYRNA, NICOMACHUS, IAM- BLICHUS, AND BOETIUS.—TOGETHER WITH SOME REMARKABLE PARTICULARS RESPECT- ING 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 PHILOSOPHI- ZED ABOUT NUMBERS; AND A DEVEL- OPEMENT OF THEIR MYSTI- CAL AND THEOLOGI- CAL ARITHMETIC. BY THOMAS TAYLOR. “Te will be proper then Glanco, to establish by law this discipline (arithmetic), and to persuade those who are to manage the greatest affairs of the city to apply to computation and study it, not in @ common way, but till by intelligence itself they arrive at the survey of the nature of numbers, not for the sake of buying nor of selling, at merchants and shopkeepers, but both for war, and for facility in the energies of the soul itself, and its conversion from generation (or the whole of @ visible nature) to truth and essence, (or real being).” Plato, Repub, Bk. vii LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, mo, 9, MANOR PLACE, WALWORTH, BY A. J. VALPY, TOOKE’s COURT, CHANCERY LANE. 1816 INTRODUCTION

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