"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 BC. The world is presented as a battlefield of forces that are unified only by the will of God, who had to do the best he could with recalcitrant building materials"--Cover, p. 4.

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Edition Notes

Published in

Oxford, New York

Series

Oxford world's classics

Genre

Early works to 1800.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class

113

Library of Congress

B387.A5 W37 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination

p. cm.

Number of pages

163

Edition Identifiers

Open Library

OL16928591M

Internet Archive

timaeuscritiasox00plat

ISBN 13

9780192807359

LCCN

2008027751

OCLC/WorldCat

226360100

Work Identifiers

Work ID

OL51879W

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