Author:Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)
Appearance
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Works
[edit]- A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries. Amsterdam (1790).
- Second edition (1816): Part 1; Part 2
- A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (1792). (1966 reprint: IA)
- A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle: in four books (1812)
- The Elements of the True Arithmetic of Infinites (1809)
- Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans (1816)
- The Elements of a New Arithmetical Notation: and of a New Arithmetic of Infinites (1823)
Translations
[edit]- Proclus. The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's Elements. 2 vols (1778–89).
- The mystical initiations; or, hymns of Orpheus (1787)
- The mystical hymns of Orpheus. Second edition (1824)
- Sallust On the Gods and the World: and the Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus, Translated from the Greek; and Five Hymns by Proclus, in the Original Greek, with a Poetical Version. To Which are Added Five Hymns by the Translator. (1793)
- Julian. Two orations of the Emperor Julian (1793)
- Pausanias, The description of Greece, by Pausanias. 3 vols. (1794)
- Second edition (1824)
- Aristotle. The Metaphysics of Aristotle: translated from the Greek with copious notes in which the Pythagoric and Platonic dogmas respecting numbers and ideas are unfolded from antient sources (1801)
- Plato. Works of Plato his first fifty-five dialogues by Plato (1804), translated with Floyer Sydenham
- Maximus of Tyre. The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius. (1804) (Commons file)
- The Treatises of Aristotle ... translated from the Greek. (1808)
- The arguments of the Emperor Julian against the Christians. (1809) (HathiTrust)
- The Works of Aristotle ... translated from the Greek. (1812)
- Proclus. The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato. (1816)
- Select works of Plotinus ... and extracts from the treatise of Synesius on providence. (1817)
- The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. (1818)
- Iamblichus. Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life (1818). (Commons file)
- Iamblichus. Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians. Chiswick, (1821). (transcription project)
- Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author. Chiswick, (1822). (transcription project)
- Apuleius. The Metamorphosis, or, Golden Ass and philosophical works of Apuleius. (1822). (Commons file)
- Porphyry. Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence from Animal Food; His Treatise on The Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. (1823).
Works about Taylor
[edit]- Thomas Taylor, The Platonist, by William Edward Armytage Axon (1890)
- "Taylor, Thomas (1758-1835)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Taylor, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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