Plato (c. 428/423-348/347 BCE) Il Dialogo di Platone, Intitolato il Timeo, overo della...
Plato (c. 428/423-348/347 BCE)
Il Dialogo di Platone, Intitolato il Timeo, overo della Natura del Mondo.
Venice: Comin da Trino, 1557.
First Italian edition of Plato's Timaeus, *4, A-K4, L2, printer's woodcut devices to title and final leaf, bound in parchment over boards, worming to interior of both boards, less so in text, 8 x 6 1/4 in.
Graesse V 325.
"In the Timaeus Plato presents an elaborately wrought account of the formation of the universe and an explanation of its impressive order and beauty. The universe, he proposes, is the product of rational, purposive, and beneficent agency. It is the handiwork of a divine Craftsman ('Demiurge,' dêmiourgos, 28a6) who, imitating an unchanging and eternal model, imposes mathematical order on a preexistent chaos to generate the ordered universe (kosmos)." (Zeyl, Donald and Barbara Sattler, "Plato's Timaeus," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/plato-timaeus/
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Plato (c. 428/423-348/347 BCE)
Il Dialogo di Platone, Intitolato il Timeo, overo della Natura del Mondo.
Venice: Comin da Trino, 1557.
First Italian edition of Plato's Timaeus, *4, A-K4, L2, printer's woodcut devices to title and final leaf, bound in parchment over boards, worming to interior of both boards, less so in text, 8 x 6 1/4 in.
Graesse V 325.
"In the Timaeus Plato presents an elaborately wrought account of the formation of the universe and an explanation of its impressive order and beauty. The universe, he proposes, is the product of rational, purposive, and beneficent agency. It is the handiwork of a divine Craftsman ('Demiurge,' dêmiourgos, 28a6) who, imitating an unchanging and eternal model, imposes mathematical order on a preexistent chaos to generate the ordered universe (kosmos)." (Zeyl, Donald and Barbara Sattler, "Plato's Timaeus," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/plato-timaeus/
