Philo Judaeus De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 146

ed. Paul Wendland

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[146] 26 καίτοι γ’ οὐδὲ τοῦτό τις ἀγνοεῖ, ὅτι πάσαις ταῖς κατὰ μέρος
τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰ σπέρματα, ἐξ ὧν ἀναβλαστεῖν ἔδοξε τὰ θεωρήματα, φιλοσοφία δεδώρηται. ἰσόπλευρα γὰρ καὶ σκαληνὰ κύκλους τε καὶ πολυγώνια καὶ τὰ ἄλλα σχήματα γεωμετρία προσεξεῦρε, σημείου δὲ καὶ γραμμῆς καὶ ἐπιφανείας καὶ στερεοῦ φύσιν, ἃ δὴ ῥίζαι καὶ θεμέλιοι τῶν λεχθέντων εἰσίν, οὐκέτι γεωμετρία.

De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the Meeting for the sake of seeking Instruction First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 146 focus

And yet even this is not unknown to any one, namely, that philosophy has bestowed upon all the particular sciences their first principles and seeds, from which speculations respecting them appear to arise. For it is geometry which invented equilateral and scalene triangles, and circles, and polygons, and all kinds of other figures. But it was no longer geometry that discovered the nature of a point, and a line, and a superficies, and a solid, which are the roots and foundations of the aforementioned figures.

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