TY - BOOK
T1 - The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus
T2 - Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
A2 - Prins, Jacomien
A2 - Thomas, Edmund
PY - 2024/12/19
Y1 - 2024/12/19
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004705838
DO - 10.1163/9789004705838
M3 - Book editing
SN - 9789004431089
T3 - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
BT - The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus
PB - Brill
ER -
