Category: History - Ancient
The following paper was originally intended as an explanatory note on the Platonic Timæus, in the work which I am now preparing on Plato and Aristotle. Interpreting, differently from others, the much debated passage in which Plato describes the cosmical function of the Earth,...
The first words of this argument deserve particular attention, "Si la terre suit le mouvement de l'axe du monde." Here we have an exact recital of the doctrine proclaimed by the...
1. Part 1The following paper was originally intended as an explanatory note on the Platonic Timæus, in the work which I am now preparing on Plato and Aristotle. Interpreting, differently...
2. Part 2M. Boeckh's words are:--"Es kommt nur darauf an, dass er ein Werk, eine Wirkung, hervorbringt oder zu einer Wirkung beiträgt, die ohne ihn nicht wäre: dann ist er durch seine Wi...
4. Part 4When we read Plutarch's criticism (Quæst. Plat. p. 1006 C) upon the word [Greek: i)llome/nên], we see that he puts to himself the question thus--"Does Plato in the Timæus concei...