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Fr. 1 · Porphyry, On Ptolemy’s Harmonics p. 236Let there be set alongside now too the words of Archytas the Pythagorean, whose writings above all are said to be genuine. In his On Mathematics, right at the start of the discourse, he says the following: ‘It seems to me … from many things’.(Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic I 3, 4, p. 6, 16 Hoche) But Archytas of Tarentum too, at the beginning of his Harmonics, says the same thing in roughly these words: ‘It seems to me … which are themselves sisters’.(Iamblichus, On Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic p. 9, 1 Pistelli; On the Common Mathematical Science 7, p. 31, 4 Festa) ‘For these sciences … sisters’. It seems to me that those concerned with the sciences have discerned well, and it is in no way strange that they think correctly about each thing, as to what it is like; for having discerned well about the nature of wholes, they …
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