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Timaeus
Plato · c. 360 BCE · translated by W. R. M. Lamb
Plato’s cosmology: a craftsman god shaping the world from geometry. The dialogue that taught the Middle Ages its physics.
35,292 words · 20 pages · about 2 h 40 min of reading
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