English translator and Platonist known for rendering a wide range of Greek philosophers into distinctive, often idiosyncratic English. He helped shape the Anglophone reception of Neoplatonism, presenting ancient philosophy as a spiritual discipline as much as an academic subject.
Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Reading) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)
4 titles in the Cabinet
Full title: A dissertation on the philosophy of Aristotle
The Dial's edition: London, 1820
Taylor's systematic exposition of Aristotelian metaphysics and natural philosophy, presenting Aristotle's principal physical and metaphysical doctrines in four books.
Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Reading) & Emerson (see Emerson's Library)
On the nature of the universe in which the positions of the stars at the commencement of the several mundane periods is given ; Julius Firmicus Maternus. Select theorems on the perpetuity of time ; by Proclus ; translated from the originals by Thomas Taylor
The Dial's edition: 1831
Taylor's translation of this Pythagorean text on cosmology and the eternal nature of the universe.
The Dial's edition: London, 1823
Taylor's introduction and commentary accompanying his translations of Porphyry's philosophical works.
Theoretic arithmetic, in three books : containing the substance of all that has been written on this subject by Theo of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Iamblichus, and Boetius, together with some remarkable particulars respecting perfect, amicable, and other numbers, which are not to be found in the writings of any ancient or modern mathematicians. Likewise, a specimen of the manner in which the Pythagoreans philosophized about numbers, and a development of their mystical and theological arithmetic
The Dial's edition: London, 1816
Taylor's presentation of Pythagorean number philosophy, treating arithmetic as a path to metaphysical understanding.
