A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2) / During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era

by Lynn Thorndike

[1482] Mommsen (1895), p. 57.

[1483] Ibid., p. 39.

[1484] Mommsen (1895), p. 82.

[1485] Ibid., pp. 45-46.

[1486] Ibid., pp. 13, 68.

[1487] Ibid., pp. 18, 41, 159.

[1488] Ibid., p. 50, and elsewhere, “siderum disciplinam.”

[1489] Ibid., p. 5, “mathematicorum nobilissimus.” Solinus probably takes this from Varro, who, as Plutarch informs us in his Life of Romulus, asked “Tarrutius, his familiar acquaintance, a good philosopher and mathematician,” to calculate the horoscope of Romulus. See above, p. 209.

[1490] Mommsen (1905), pp. 75-6.

[1491] Ibid., p. 66.