Robert Catesby Taliaferro

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Robert Catesby Taliaferro (* 1907 , † 1989 ) was an American historian of science, classical philologist and philosopher.

He did not use the first name Robert and is quoted as R. Catesby Taliaferro or RC Taliaferro.

He translated from Greek and Latin into English: the conic sections by Apollonios of Perge , the Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy , works by Plato ( Timaeus , Critias ) and Augustine (On Music).

He received his doctorate in 1936 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville ( The Aristotelean theory of movement, with a translation from the Greek of the treatises On place and On the varuum of John Philoponus of Alexandria ), was a teacher at St. John's College in Annapolis (Maryland) and from 1948 Masters at Portsmouth Priory School in Portsmouth (Rhode Island) . In 1956 he became an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame , after having been a visiting associate professor there.

Fonts

  • The concept of matter in Descartes and Leibniz , University of Notre Dame Press, 1964
  • Number systems, introduction to Euclid book V, and to the theory of limits , 1946, revised 1947

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Books 1–3, 1939, also in Great Books of the Western World (Encyclopedia Britannica) 1955, Reprint Green Lion Press, Santa Fe 1998
  2. ^ Annapolis 1938, translated into English after the edition of the Greek text by Heiberg, reprinted in the series Great Books of the Western World 1948, 1955
  3. ^ New York: Pantheon Books 1945
  4. ↑ Annapolis, The St. John's Bookstore 1939
  5. ↑ International Mathematical News 1956
personal data
SURNAME Taliaferro, Robert Catesby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taliaferro, R. Catesby; Taliaferro RC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science, classical scholar, and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
DATE OF DEATH 1989