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Plato's Timaeus and the missing fourth guest : finding the harmony of the spheres
- Title
- Plato's Timaeus and the missing fourth guest : finding the harmony of the spheres / by Donna M. Altimari Adler.
- Author
- Altimari-Adler, Donna M.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- ©2020
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- Description
- xxix, 624 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In "Plato's 'Timaeus' and the Missing Fourth Guest", Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos in Plato's text, mathematically, regarding it as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix defining a sophisticated harmony of the spheres. She stresses the Decad as the pattern governing both human perception and the generation of all things, in the text, including the World Soul and musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely identifies Plato's "fabric" and its locus of severance and solves other thorny problems of interpretation, e.g., properly naming the sets of three and four bands, born of splitting the band of difference, and explaining their differing motions and speeds.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; volume 21
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 21.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [564]-569) and index.
- Call Number
- JME 20-176
- ISBN
- 9789004389915
- 9004389911
- 9789004389922 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018061272
- OCLC
- 1143765666
- Author
- Altimari-Adler, Donna M., author.
- Title
- Plato's Timaeus and the missing fourth guest : finding the harmony of the spheres / by Donna M. Altimari Adler.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; volume 21Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 21.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [564]-569) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 500
- Other Form:
- Online version: Altimari-Adler, Donna M. author. Plato's Timaeus and the missing fourth guest (DLC) 2018061535 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004389922
- Research Call Number
- JME 20-176