At a distance of almost 2,400 years, it may seem strange to look at Plato's Timaeus as the first pop science book. But its influence on scholars and scientists down through the centuries has been ...

Timaeus (fifth century bc) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, in Magna Graecia, now southern Italy. He was also a mathematician and astronomer. Plato studied with him while he was visiting ...

In his dialogue Timaeus, the Greek philosopher Plato (427–347 B.C.) carefully laid out his reasoning for ascribing certain geometric shapes to the minuscule particles that constituted the four ...