1. Plato, Timaeus, 30A, trans. R. G. Bury, in Plato, Volume 9 (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1929), p. 55.
2. Erwin Schrödinger, Shearman Lectures at University College London, May 1948, published as Nature and the Greeks (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1954)。
3. Alexandre Koyré, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1957), p. 159.
4. Ancilla, p. 22.
5. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Rex Warner (Penguin, New York, 1954, 1972), p. 511.
6. S. Greenblatt, “The Answer Man: An Ancient Poem Was Rediscovered and the World Swerved,” New Yorker, August 8, 2011, pp. 28–33.
7. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 23 (Everyman’s Library, New York, 1991), p. 412. Hereafter cited as Gibbon, Decline and Fall.
8. Ibid., Chapter 2, p. 34.
9. Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, trans. Charles Glenn Wallis (Prometheus, Amherst, N.Y., 1995), p. 7.
10. Lactantius, Divine Institutes, Book 3, Section 24, trans. A. Bowen and P. Garnsey (Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2003)。
11. Paul, Epistle to the Colossians 2:8 (King James translation)。
12. Augustine, Confessions, Book IV, trans. A. C. Outler (Dover, New York, 2002), p. 63.
13. Augustine, Retractions, Book I, Chapter 1, trans. M. I. Bogan (Catholi University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1968), p. 10.
14. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, Chapter XL, p. 231.
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