Note 473 — Chapter IV · PARMENIDES OF ELEA
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On the concentric spheres of Eudoxos, see Dreyer, Planetary Systems, chap. iv. It is unfortunate that the account of Plato’s astronomy given in this work is wholly inadequate, owing to the writer’s excessive reliance on Boeckh, who was led by evidence now generally regarded as untrustworthy to attribute all the astronomy of the Academy to their predecessors, and especially to Philolaos.