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The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus: Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
 
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The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus

Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
 
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The Legacy of Plato?s Timaeus examines the influence of the Timaeus on the early disciplinary histories of cosmology, music, medicine, and architecture and investigates how in turn the interpretation of the dialogue was shaped by new intellectual and cultural developments.

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Plato?s Timaeus inspired a uniquely enduring interest across disciplines. In the centuries between its composition and the seventeenth century, scholars looked to this dialogue for answers to questions about the structure of the universe and how to live a healthy and happy life. They saw cosmology as vital to medicine and ethics; and, for them, harmony in music and architecture facilitated balance in the human soul. This interdisciplinary collection explores how the dialogue transformed the disciplines of cosmology, music, medicine, and architecture, and how new intellectual and cultural developments in turn shaped and re-contextualized interpretations of Plato?s ideas.
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Note on Translations, Editions, and Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors



1 Introduction: from Plato?s Text to the Beginnings of Modern Science ? towards a New Understanding of the Disciplinary Inheritance of Plato?s Timaeus

 Jacomien Prins and Edmund Thomas



PART 1: The Timaeus and its Reception in Late Antiquity



2 Mathematization in Plato?s Timaeus

 Barbara M. Sattler



3 Towards the Quadrivium: the Role of the Timaeus in the Constitution of a Corpus of Mathematical Sciences

 Federico M. Petrucci



4 Galen?s Timaeus

 Robert Vinkesteijn



5 From Text to Building: the Impact of the Timaeus on the Discipline of Architecture in Later Antiquity

 Edmund Thomas



PART 2: The Medieval Timaeus



6 The Reception of the Timaeus in Medieval Music Theory and Practice

 Barbara Haggh-Huglo



7 Signum, Ordo, Machina: Nature in Twelfth-century Chartres, Paris and Bologna between Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Heritage

 Riccardo Saccenti



8 Curing Body and Soul with Plato?s Timaeus in the Eastern Roman Empire (284?1453)

 Frederick Lauritzen



9 The Timaeus and Durham Cathedral

 John Shannon Hendrix



PART 3: The Timaeus in the Renaissance



10 ?Not for Irrational Pleasure?: Music in Marsilio Ficino?s Timaeus Commentary

 Jacomien Prins



11 Saving the Phenomena: Geometric Atomism and the Timaeus in the Renaissance

 Guy Claessens



12 Johannes Kepler and the Pythagoreans

 Jonathan Regier



13 Vesalius and the Timaeus. The Anatomist?s Answer to the Philosopher

 Jacqueline Vons



14 The Timaeus, Perspective, and Early Renaissance Concepts of Architectural Space

 Nicholas Temple



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