Theon of Smyrna: Book on Astronomy

PART ONE.

Chapter I. On the time, life, and works of Theon of Smyrna.
Chapter II. On the manuscripts of Theon’s Astronomy.
Chapter III. Description of the Parisian Manuscript.
Chapter IV. On the plan of this edition.

PART TWO.

Chapter I. What place does Theon occupy among the interpreters of Platonic philosophy?
Chapter II. What place should Theon’s astronomical book occupy in the history of astronomy?
Chapter III. On the authors mentioned in Theon’s astronomical book.
§ 1. On Empedocles, Ibycus, and a certain tragic poet.
§ 2. On the Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Egyptians.
§ 3. On Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Oenopides.
§ 4. On Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
§ 5. On Plato.
§ 6. On Eudoxus, Callippus, and Aristotle.
§ 7. On Menaechmus of Alopeconnesus, the Platonic mathematician.
§ 8. On Eudemus of Rhodes.
§ 9. On Dicaearchus.
§ 10. On Eratosthenes.
§ 11. On Aratus, Archimedes, Hipparchus, and Posidonius.
§ 12. On Alexander Aetolus and Alexander of Ephesus.
§ 13. On Thrasyllus of Phlius.
§ 14. On Dercyllides the Platonist.
§ 15. On Adrastus of Aphrodisias, the Peripatetic.
§ 16. On Serenus of Antissa, philosopher and mathematician.
§ 17. Which authors Theon primarily followed.
Chapter IV. Exposition of Theon’s astronomy, with a judgment regarding it.
§ 1. On the figure of the heavens.