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Philolaus - Carl A. Huffman: Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. A Commentary on the Fragments and Testimonia with Interpretive Essays. Pp. xix+444. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, £60/$100.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

P. M. Kingsley
P. M. Kingsley
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The Warburg InstituteLondon
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The Classical Review , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , October 1994 , pp. 294 - 296
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1 Cf. also Anatolius, De decade, p. 6 Heiberg = ps.-Iamblichus, Theol. arithm. p. 6 de Falco for equation of the Pythagorean ‘hearth’ with the arithmetical unit, or ‘monad’.

2 Simplicius, Phys. 1354. 2–3, 1355. 3–11 Diels; for the pedigree of the passage see Burkert, , Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism (1972), 340 n. 15. Cf. also Parmenides A37, B12.3 (ἐν μέσω…πντα κυβερνᾶι).Google Scholar

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