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 ...

The University of Illinois Press is one of the leading publishers of humanities and social sciences journals in the country. Founded in 1918, the Press publishes more than 40 journals representing 18 ...