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 ...

“I see that I shall receive in my turn a perfect and splendid feast of reason. And now, Timaeus, you, I suppose, should speak next, after duly calling upon the gods,” says Socrates to his interlocutor ...

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 ...