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When Festa edited Iamblichus, De communi mathematica scientia * (subsequently referred to as Isc) in his Preface (p. IX) he noticed its similarity to the First Prologue of the Proclus commentary on Euclid ** and pointed out the literal coincidences and parallels. We are going to discuss one aspect of this similarity.
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On the summaries (kephalaia) in Iamblichus see H. Oppermann in Gnomon 5 (1929) 545–558 esp. p. 552 f.; L. Deubner, “Bemerkungen zum Text der Vita Pythagorae des Iamblichos”, SB der Berl. Ak., Phihs.-hist. Kl. 1935, 612-690; 824-827, esp. 689 n.; 690; 690 n. 2.
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Merlan, P. (1953). Soul and Mathematicals. In: From Platonism to Neoplatonism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6205-2_2
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