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The Timaeus

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In a well-known passage A N Whitehead apostrophises Plato as the seminal philosopher of the western world, to whom all later philosophers stand as a series of footnotes.

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  1. A.W. Gouldner, Enter Plato, Basic Books, New York (1965).

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  2. E. Bastholm, The History of Muscle Physiology, Munksgaard, Copenhagen (1950).

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Smith, C.U.M. (1976). The Timaeus. In: The Problem of Life. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02461-2_7

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