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Timaeus and Critias

Paperback • 2008 • English

Timaeus and Critias

By Alexander von Plato

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About the book

"Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos - the product of the rational thinking of a creator god and his astral assistants, and of purely mechanistic causes based on the behaviour of the four elements. At times dazzlingly clear, at times intriguingly opaque, this was state-of-the-art science in the middle of the fourth century B...Show more

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9780192807359

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Timaeus and Critias

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Paperback

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