Plato's Timaeus and the missing fourth guest : finding the harmony of the spheres /

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...

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Main Author: Altimari-Adler, Donna M. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 21.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820.

Subjects:

Plato. > Timaeus.

Musical intervals and scales > Greece > History > To 500.

Harmony of the spheres.

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