Ocellus Lucanus, Firmicus Maternus, Select Theorems of Proclus (Thomas Taylor)

and also a translation of the Mundi Thema, or Geniture of the World, from the celebrated astrological work of Julius Firmicus Maternus. I have included this because it not only accepts the perpetuity of the universe with Ocellus, but also unfolds the positions of the stars at the commencement of each of the periods comprised in the greater mundane apocatastasisoriginal: "apocatastasis" — a Greek term meaning a restoration or return to a previous state, often used in ancient astronomy to describe a full cycle of the planets., which consists of 300,000 years; the first period following a deluge and conflagration being, as it were, a reproduction of the world.

I have likewise annexed a translation of select theorems from the second book of Proclus on Motion, in which the perpetuity of time, and of the bodies which are moved by a natural circular motion, is incontrovertibly proven. This is demonstrated by what Plato calls "geometrical necessities" (original: "γεωμετρικαις αναγκαις").

Finally, I have added copious notes to these treatises so that nothing might be wanting to make their meaning clear to the unprejudiced and intelligent reader.