Proclus
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noun
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In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Platonists’ doctrines of recurrence and reminiscence were not the real problem, however; both were endorsed by Proclus, who still wrote, as the Greeks did, in terms of discovery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Had Vergil had an opportunity to read Proclus, some of this might have made its way into his text, but it is unlikely that he would have absorbed the concept of discovery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The definition that has met with the widest acceptance, however, is a modification of one due to Proclus, "A surface such that a straight line fits on all parts of it."
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
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