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Greetings all,

The book of Ocellus Lucanus "On the Nature of the Universe" came up in another thread, and Earl Doherty noted he had no access to a copy. (A rather obscure and early work - maybe around Pythagoras' time, Archytas mentions him.)

I have a printed copy, published by the Philosophical Research Society in 1976.

It is a facsimile reprint of the original 1831 translation by Thomas Taylor.

I am pretty sure that makes the original facsimile text out-of-copyright, so I will go ahead and scan it. Please let me now if I am mistaken about that.

I'll post images, saves on errors in CR.

(Amazing what the 'net is doing for document research - I saw a fascinating page recently with facsimiles of the earliest Shakespeare quartos - they appear to be actor's crib sheets, highly variant, later collected and printed - a great site for Shakespeare Mythers :-)


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Toto

That translation is available here for those who want a hard copy.

Roger Pearse

It is certainly out of copyright everywhere. Good stuff to scan it -- how about OCR'ing it also? (Use Finereader)

All the best,

Roger Pearse