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100 0 $aPlato.
240 10 $aTimaeus.$lEnglish
245 10 $aTimaeus and Critias /$cPlato ; translated by Robin Waterfield ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Gregory.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2008.
300 $alxviii, 163 p. :$bill. ;$c20 cm.
490 0 $aOxford world's classics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [lx]-lxviii).
505 0 $aTimaeus -- Critias.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aCosmology$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aAtlantis (Legendary place)
655 7 $aEarly works.$2fast
700 1 $aWaterfield, Robin$d1952-
700 1 $aGregory, Andrew,$d1960-
700 02 $aPlato.$tCritias.$lEnglish.
700 1 $aWaterfield, Robin,$d1952-$etranslator.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aPlato.$sTimaeus. English.$tTimaeus and Critias.$dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008$w(OCoLC)609228687
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