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Timaeus and Critias /
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, an...
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| Formatua: | Printed Book |
| Hizkuntza: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2008.
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| Saila: | Oxford world's classics
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008027751.html |
| Gaia: | 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. |
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| Deskribapen fisikoa: | Ixviii, 163 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [lx]-Ixviii). |
| ISBN: | 9780192807359 |