Ocellus Lucanus on the nature of the universe

by Julius Firmicus Maternus; Proclus; Tauros

[55] By the geniture of the world, the greater apocatastasis is signified, as is evident from the preceding extract from Julius Firmicus.

[56] i. e. a mundane period being finished.

[57] See the Introduction to my Translation of the Timæus of Plato.

[58] Traité de l’Astronomie Indienne et Orientale, par Monsieur Bailly, published in 1787.

SELECT THEOREMS
IN PROOF OF
THE PERPETUITY OF TIME,
AND OF THAT WHICH IS NATURALLY MOVED WITH A CIRCULAR MOTION.
EXTRACTED FROM THE SECOND BOOK OF PROCLUS ON MOTION.

HYPOTHESES.

Every natural body is moveable according to place.

Every local motion is either in a circle, or in a right line, or mixed from these.