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D.L. 9.47-48 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius; served verbatim
Causes concerned with Sounds. Causes concerned with Seeds, Plants and Fruits. Causes concerned with Animals, three books. Miscellaneous Causes. Concerning the Magnet. These works have not been arranged. The mathematical works are these : VII. On a Difference in an Angle, or On Contact with the Circle or the Sphere. On Geometry. Geometrica. Numbers. VIII. On Irrational Lines and Solids, two books. Extensions (Projections). The Great Year, or Astronomy, Calendar. Contention of the Water-clock <and the Heaven>. IX. Description of the Heaven. Geography. Description of the Pole. Description of Rays of Light. These are the mathematical works. The literary and musical works are these : X. On Rhythms and Harmony. On Poetry. On Beauty of Verses. On Euphonious and Cacophonous Letters. a Diels compares Ptolemy, Geogr. vii. 7 v-n-oypa^ tov £KTreTdcr/j.a.Tos. vTroypacpi} 5' £<rrcu /ecu rrjs Toiavrrjs eKweTacrews apixb'govad re Kal Ke<pa\auu8r)s. 77 TOiavTt] rf/s Kpucbffijs a<paipas £iwre8u Karaypacpr) kt\. The title 'EKireTda/uLara may therefore mean " Projection of an armillary sphere on a plane." 45Q

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Ptolemy — a candidate entry

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L185) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
license: public-domain (US: published 1925, pre-1930 — the MCMXXV title page verified from the scan itself; only the English rectos are served, Hicks's translation)