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  2. Vitruvius, On Architecture, bk. 8, ch. preface, sec. 1.II, 132; bk. 8, ch. preface,
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  3. Ilsetraut Hadot, Arts libéraux et philosophie dans la pensée antique (Paris: Études
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  4. R. A. Markus, “Marius Victorinus and Augustine,” in The Cambridge History of
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  5. David C. Lindberg, “Science and the Early Christian Church,” Isis 74 (1983):
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  6. William H. Stahl and Richard Johnson, Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal
    Arts (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971), esp. 21–25.

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  8. Boëthius, De trinitate, bk. 2, Loeb 8–9, 88.

  9. Augustine, The City of God, trans. by David Wiesen (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
    University Press, 1968), esp. bk. 8, ch. 1 (vol. 3, 3–7) defi nes theology as “a Greek word
    by which we understand thought and speech about the divine” (translation emended).
    In addition to “natural” theology, he discusses elsewhere (bk. 8, ch. 5 [vol. 3, 23]) such
    pagan varieties as “mythical” (fabulosa) and “political” (civilis) theology.

  10. Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy from the Ancient World to the Nine-
    teenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 42–43.

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    ed. David Wagner (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983), 250.

  12. Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy, 105.

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    Press, 1998).

  14. Bruce Eastwood, “The Astronomy of Pliny, Martianus Capella and Isidore of
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