# Ocellus Lucanus on the nature of the universe Author: Taylor, Thomas, 1758-1835 [Translator]; Firmicus Maternus, Julius; Proclus, 412-485; Tauros, 105?-; Okellos, ho Leukanos, active 6th century B.C. [Dubious author] Genre: Category: History - Ancient Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75391 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ocellus+Lucanus+on+the+nature+of+the+universe+Taylor&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The Tracts contained in this small volume will, I trust, be perused with considerable interest by every English reader who is a lover of ancient lore; and whatever innovations may have been made in the philosophical theories of the ancients by the accumulated experiments of the moderns, yet the scientific deductions of the former will, I am persuaded, ultimately predominate over the futile and ever-varying conclusions of the latter. For science, truly so called, is, as Aristotle accurately defines it to be, the knowledge of things eternal, and which have a necessary existence. Hence it has for its basis _universals_, and not _particulars_; since the former are _definite_, _immutable_, and... ## Chapters - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ocellus-lucanus-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-75391/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ocellus-lucanus-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-75391/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ocellus-lucanus-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-75391/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ocellus-lucanus-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-75391/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ocellus-lucanus-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-75391/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ocellus-lucanus-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-75391/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ocellus-lucanus-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-75391/chapters/7/index.md)