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- Robert Catesby Taliaferro (* 1907; † 1989) war ein US-amerikanischer Wissenschaftshistoriker, Altphilologe und Philosoph. Er benutzte den Vornamen Robert nicht und wird R. Catesby Taliaferro oder R. C. Taliaferro zitiert. Er übersetzte aus dem Griechischen und Lateinischen ins Englische: die Kegelschnitte von Apollonios von Perge, den Almagest von Claudius Ptolemäus, Werke von Platon (Timaios, Kritias) und Augustinus (Über Musik). Er wurde 1936 an der University of Virginia in Charlottesville promoviert (The Aristotelean theory of movement, with a translation from the Greek of the treatises On place and On the varuum of John Philoponus of Alexandria), war Lehrer am St. John´s College in Annapolis (Maryland) und ab 1948 Master an der Portsmouth Priory School in Portsmouth (Rhode Island). 1956 wurde er Associate Professor an der University of Notre Dame, nachdem er dort schon Visiting Associate Professor war. (de)
- Robert Catesby Taliaferro (1907–1989) was an American mathematician, science historian, classical philologist, philosopher, and translator of ancient Greek and Latin works into English. An Episcopalian from an old Virginia family, he taught in the mathematics department of the University of Notre Dame. He is cited as R. Catesby Taliaferro or R. C. Taliaferro. He translated from Greek and Latin into English: Ptolemy's Almagest, a 2nd-century book on astronomy, the 13 books of Euclid's Elements, Apollonius' works on conic sections, and some works of Plato (Timaios, Critias), and St. Augustine (On Music). He contributed a celebrated foreword to the Bollingen Series 1944 reprint of the Thomas Taylor translation of Plato's Timaeus and Critias. He also wrote a book titled The concept of matter in Descartes and Leibniz and one titled Number systems, introduction to Euclid book V, and to the theory of limits. He received his doctorate from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1936. He was a teacher at St. John's College in Annapolis, and in 1948 became a master at Portsmouth Priory, now Portsmouth Abbey School, in Portsmouth (Rhode Island). In 1956 he became an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, after he was their visiting associate professor. (en)
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- Robert Catesby Taliaferro (* 1907; † 1989) war ein US-amerikanischer Wissenschaftshistoriker, Altphilologe und Philosoph. Er benutzte den Vornamen Robert nicht und wird R. Catesby Taliaferro oder R. C. Taliaferro zitiert. Er übersetzte aus dem Griechischen und Lateinischen ins Englische: die Kegelschnitte von Apollonios von Perge, den Almagest von Claudius Ptolemäus, Werke von Platon (Timaios, Kritias) und Augustinus (Über Musik). (de)
- Robert Catesby Taliaferro (1907–1989) was an American mathematician, science historian, classical philologist, philosopher, and translator of ancient Greek and Latin works into English. An Episcopalian from an old Virginia family, he taught in the mathematics department of the University of Notre Dame. He is cited as R. Catesby Taliaferro or R. C. Taliaferro. (en)
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