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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. The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus 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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Author:   Jacomien Prins ,  Edmund Thomas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   353
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004431089

ISBN 10:   900443108
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   26 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements List of Figures 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 Index

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Jacomien Prins is a research fellow at Utrecht University. She has worked extensively on the interaction between music and philosophy in the Renaissance. Her work includes Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory (Brill, 2014), Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony (Routledge, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being (Routledge, 2018). Edmund Thomas is Associate Professor in Ancient Visual and Material Culture at Durham University and a former director of the Durham Centre for Classical Reception. He has published many works on the intellectual and cultural background of Greek and Roman architecture and the classical architectural tradition up to the present day, including Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age (Oxford University Press, 2007).

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