THE

METAPHYSICS OF ARISTOTLE,

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK;

WITH

COPIOUS NOTES,

IN WHICH

THE PYTHAGORIC AND PLATONIC DOGMAS RESPECTING NUMBERS AND

IDEAS ARE UNFOLDED FROM ANTIENT SOURCES.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A DISSERTATION ON NULLITIES AND DIVERGING SERIES;

IN WHICH

THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE GREATEST MODERN MATHEMATICIANS ON THIS SUBJECT ARE

SHOWN TO BE ERRONEOUS, THE NATURE OF INFINITELY SMALL QUANTITIES IS

EXPLAINED, AND THE TO 'EN, OR THE ONE OF THE PYTHAGOREANS

AND PLATONISTS, SO OFTEN ALLUDED TO BY ARISTOTLE

IN THIS WORK, IS ELUCIDATED.

BY THOMAS TAYLOR.

I am striving to preserve for posterity the elements of virtues and the rules of truth, like some immortal and ancestral inheritance, having set them down in writing for the common good. Original Greek text: "Ὥσπερ τινα ἀθάνατον καὶ πατρῷον κλῆρον διαγωνίζω τοῖς μεταγενεστέροις διαφυλάξαι τὰ στοιχεῖα τῶν ἀρετῶν καὶ ἀληθείας τοὺς κανόνας, ταῦτα εἰς κοινὸν ὄφελος ἐν γράμμασι καταθέμενος."

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY DAVIS, WILKS, AND TAYLOR, CHANCERY-LANE,

AND SOLD BY J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET; J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD;

J. CUTHELL, HOLBORN; AND E. JEFFREY, PALL-MALL.

1801.