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Proclus · Thomas Taylor
Translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, 1925 BOOK I BOOK II 1. CONTINUOUS ARE things whose term is one. 2. CONTIGUOUS are things whose terms join. 3. CONSEQUENT are things between whom is nothing of the same kind. 4. The first moment of motion is the one than whom there is nothing longer nor shorter. 5. The ORIGINAL PLACE is the one that is neither larger nor smaller than the contained body. 6. That is at rest which, before and after, both itself and its parts remain in one and the same place. PROPOSITION 1. Two indivisibles do not touch. 2. From two indivisibles no continuum can be formed. 3. What is interposed between indivisibles must be continuous. 4. Two indivisibles cannot be consequent. 5. Every continuum is divisible, and ever divisible. 6. If a quantity is composed of indivisibles, the motion made thereon will also be indivisible, 7. If the motion is composed of indivisibles, its …
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