Artur Schnabel was one of the greatest Schubert-Beethoven-Mozart players of all time, and any commentary of his on this repertory is valuable.

It is an engrossing commentary on a repressive, upper-middle-class New York way of life in the first part of this century.

Swami Sivananda, an Advaita scholar, reiterates the same views in his commentary synthesising Vedanta views on the Brahma Sutras, a Vedantic text.

In his commentary on Chapter 3 of the Brahma Sutras, Sivananda notes that karma is insentient and short-lived, and ceases to exist as soon as a deed is executed.

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* Ambrosiaster or the " pseudo-Ambrose " is a brief commentary on Paul's Epistles, which was long attributed to Ambrose.

His principal theological works are a commentary in three volumes on the Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( Magister Sententiarum ), and the Summa Theologiae in two volumes.

On the subject of alchemy and chemistry, many treatises relating to Alchemy have been attributed to him, though in his authentic writings he had little to say on the subject, and then mostly through commentary on Aristotle.

For example, in his commentary, De mineralibus, he refers to the power of stones, but does not elaborate on what these powers might be.

Albertus is known for his enlightening commentary on the musical practice of his times.

Most of his written musical observations are found in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics.

The commentary on the Sophistical Refutations is deemed spurious, as is the commentary on the final nine books of the Metaphysics.

Simplicius of Cilicia mentions that Alexander provided commentary on the quadrature of the lunes, and the corresponding problem of squaring the circle.

In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, " brief in words but weighty in matter ," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament.

Because Augustine cites part of the commentary on Romans as by " Sanctus Hilarius " it has been ascribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary.

Of his reputedly numerous writings, only his commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione survives intact.

A commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge may also be his, but it is somewhat corrupt and contains later interpolations.

Two treatises are sometimes erroneously attributed to him, one On Emotions, the other a commentary on Aristotle's Ethics ( really by Constantine Palaeocapa in the 16th century, or by John Callistus of Thessalonica ).

The 9th-10th century master of the religious system known as " the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir " ( or " Kashmir Shaivism ") and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries on the Dhvanyāloka, the Dhvanyāloka-locana ( translated by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992 ) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Nātyashāstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and Patwardhan.

His work, a commentary on Plato's Timaeus, is lost, but Proclus, a Neoplatonist of the fifth century AD, reports on it.

Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ), in his treatise on Justice and Jihad and his commentary on Plato's Republic, writes that the human mind can know of the unlawfulness of killing and stealing and thus of the five maqasid or higher intents of the Islamic sharia or to protect religion, life, property, offspring, and reason.

Averroe did not have at hand a text of Aristotle's Politics, so he wrote a commentary on Plato's Republic instead.

Plato's explores the problematic moral status of rhetoric twice: in Gorgias, a dialogue named for the famed Sophist, and in The Phaedrus, a dialogue best known for its commentary on love.

He wrote at least 67 original works, which included 28 works on philosophy, 20 on medicine, 8 on law, 5 on theology, and 4 on grammar, in addition to his commentaries on most of Aristotle's works and his commentary on Plato's The Republic.

Although it is not certain, Posidonius may have written a commentary on Plato's Timaeus.

McDowell's earliest published work was in ancient philosophy, most notably including a translation of and commentary on Plato's Theaetetus.

His translation of Proclus ' commentary on Plato's Parmenides which included Plato's dialogue up to 142b in Stephanus pagination made this text available in Latin for the first time.

) An anonymous commentary on Plato's Parmenides.

), Proclus ' commentary on Plato's Parmenides.

He was the author of An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric ( 1867 ), a standard work ; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary, revised and edited by JE Sandys ( 1877 ); translations of Plato's Gorgias ( 2nd ed., 1884 ) and Phaedo ( revised by H Jackson, 1875 ).

The work was followed by a complete edition of Plato's works ( 2 vols., 1819 – 1832 ) with a Latin translation and commentary.

The lengthiest and most famous of Xenophon's Socratic writings, the Memorabilia is essentially an apologia ( defense ) of Socrates, differing from both Xenophon's Apology of Socrates to the Jury and Plato's Apology mainly in that the Apologies present Socrates as defending himself before the jury, whereas the former presents Xenophon's own defense of Socrates, offering edifying examples of Socrates ' conversations and activities along with occasional commentary from Xenophon.

His On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato is not a commentary on Plato's writings but rather a general handbook for a student of mathematics.

As Roberto Weiss has pointed out in the commentary, " his aim appears to have been an interpretation of some of Plato's passages as Christian maxims.

Another passage from Proclus ' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea.

We learn from the commentary of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato that Syrianus also wrote a commentary on the same book.

* Timæus Locrus, Fragmenta et testimonia ( Fragments and testimonies ), commentary by Matthias Baltes-Über die Natur des Kosmos und der Seele / Timaeus Locrus ; Brill, 1972, xii-252 p. Coll.

* Proclus, A commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, translated by Glenn Raymond Morrow, Princeton University Press, 1992.

Proclus also wrote an influential commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements of Geometry.

Proclus, a Greek mathematician who lived several centuries after Euclid, wrote in his commentary of the Elements: " Euclid, who put together the Elements, collecting many of Eudoxus ' theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus ', and also bringing to irrefragable demonstration the things which were only somewhat loosely proved by his predecessors ".

Proclus was cited by Cotton Mather in his work entitled Psalterium Americanum ( a commentary on the Book of Psalms ) for his view on the book of Psalms.

Important examples include those of Proclus and of Damascius, and an anonymous 3rd or 4th commentary possibly due to Porphyry.

The 13th century translation of Proclus ' commentary by Dominican friar William of Moerbeke stirred subsequent medieval interest ( Klibansky, 1941 ).

In the 15th century, Proclus ' commentary influenced the philosophy of Nicolas of Cusa, and Neoplatonists Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino penned a major commentaries.

The only evidence comes from traditions recorded in works such as Proclus ’ commentary on Euclid written centuries later.

Pythagoras is widely credited with recognizing the mathematical basis of musical harmony and, according to Proclus ' commentary on Euclid, he discovered the theory of proportionals and constructed regular solids.

The curve was alluded to by Proclus in his commentary on Euclid and attributed to Diocles by Geminus as early as the beginning of the 1st century.

A separate edition of the Parmenides ( 1839 ), with the commentary of Proclus, deserves mention.