Marinos [Marinus] of Neapolis. The Extant Works or The Life of Proklos and the Commentary on the Dedomena of Euclid. . Testimonia de Vita Marini. An Introduction and Bibliography by Al. N. Oikonomides.

First Edition. 123 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine. Contains Greek text, with translation on facing page. Includes the Greek text of The Life of Proklos (edited by J. F. Boissonade) and the English translation by Thomas Taylor. Includes the Greek text of the Commentary on the Dedomena of Euclid (edited by H. Menge) and the French translation with commentary by M. Michaux (Le commentaire de Marinus aux Data d'Euclide: Étude critique. Louvain, 1947). Marinus '. wrote a commentary, or rather introduction to the Data of Euclid. It is mainly taken up with a discussion of the question - what is meant by given? . Although Marinus followed closely the views of his teacher, Proclus he did show originality which is much to his credit. The level of his regard for Proclus is evident in the biography that he wrote Life of Proclus in which he '. praised and eulogised [Proclus].' Yet when Marinus felt that Proclus was in error he was quite prepared to give his own views. For example Proclus had claimed that Plato's Parmenides was concerned with gods. Marinus, quite correctly, pointed out that Plato's work in rather concerned with 'forms' ' (Mactutor History of Mathematics Web site, citing the D. S. B. and Heath's A History of Greek Mathematics).…