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On Anaximander's Figures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

D. R. Dicks
D. R. Dicks
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Bedford College, University of London
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In a highly speculative article in the last issue of this Journal, D. O'Brien takes me to task for ‘thoughtless simplification of Kahn, Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology 88 n. 2, cf. 68’, and for saying (JHS lxxxvi [1966] 36), in relation to the figures used by Tannery in his hypothetical reconstruction of Anaximander's astronomical system, that ‘only 27 in the series has any textual authority’ (O'Brien, op. cit. 120 n. 44). O'Brien does this in such a way as to suggest that I am unaware that the figures 28 and 19 are also recorded in the doxographical tradition, and to infer that my ‘judgment has perhaps been coloured’ by this.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 89 , November 1969 , pp. 120
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1969

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1 JHS lxxxviii (1968) 114–27. The article contains some curious language (e.g. ‘break the assumption’, mid-p. 121 and top p. 122), and some even more curious statements (e.g. p. 124 n. 62, ‘Galen's statement, that the sun is larger than the earth, Hist. philos. 63 [Dox. Gr. 626], although it may be true in substance, is probably in Galen simply a random error’), but this is not the place to demonstrate its eccentricities.