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Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Translator’s Note On The Latin Texts
Marsilio Ficino’s Compendium on the Timaeus
Chapter 1: The subject matter of the book
Chapter 2: The arrangement of the book and its parts
Chapter 3: Introduction to the dialogue
Chapter 4: An allegory of history; contents of the prologue
Chapter 5: The fall of Phaethon; floods; fires; a description of Minerva
Chapter 6: The finest directions concerning prayers and entreaties
Chapter 7: The world has three causes higher than itself, depends on the incorporeal cause, and is ever in flux
Chapter 8: The Good Itself, rather than subsequent causes, is the cause of all things, and it has no direct relationship with anything
Chapter 9: The dependence of matter on the Good Itself; the action of the mind and soul upon matter; and the intelligible world
Chapter 10: The Sun, light, radiance, brilliance, heat, procreation; likewise unity, goodness, intellect, soul, nature, the body of the world, the image of the higher worlds
Chapter 11: Individual orders are taken back to individual heads, and the universal order is taken back to the universal head, by which all things are composed through action and power
Chapter 12: Matter was not in disarray prior to the world in time, but was arranged according to some principle of order or origin
Chapter 13: Two views concerning the origin of the world
Chapter 14: A threefold inference drawn from Plato’s view of the world, and what is undisputed about his view
Chapter 15: By the grace of the Good the world has been brought into being in the likeness of the divine principle and the divine word
Chapter 16: Why the world is one, why it is spherical, and why its movement is spherical
Chapter 17: Why the world is divided into five or six regions; how the number seven is right for it; circular number; and how the world is arranged in the likeness of the intelligible world
Chapter 18: Why there are distinct parts within the world and why there is opposition among them; also concerning the four elements
Chapter 19: Numbers linear, plane, and solid; why a single intermediary is sufficient between planes but is not sufficient between solids; how mathematical ratios are related to physical ratios
Chapter 20: The first consideration: why the number four in relation to the elements befits the world
Chapter 21: The second consideration: proving the same
Chapter 22: The third consideration: confirming the same
Chapter 23: The fourth consideration of the same; and the powers and ratios of the elements
Chapter 24: The whole world is composed of four elements; how these elements are under a particular principle in the heavens and under a different principle beneath the Moon
Chapter 25: Circular motion is the property of every sphere in constant movement; and light is the principal property of fire
Chapter 26: A confirmation of what was said earlier; concerning fire, ether, the composition of the heavens, and the daemons in the heavens and beneath the heavens
Chapter 27: On the spirit of the world, that is, on intellect, soul, intelligence, and nature
Chapter 28: On the composition of the soul, and why the soul needs five elements for its constitution
Chapter 29: Why the soul is compared to a compound and to musical harmony
Chapter 30: The propositions and proportions related to Pythagorean and Platonic music
Chapter 31: In musical harmonies one is produced from the many; how harmony is defined
Chapter 32: Which harmonies arise from which proportions
Chapter 33: On the harmonious composition of the soul
Chapter 34: The main points about the harmonic numbers which lead to the composition of the soul
Chapter 34*: From the intervals of the spheres Plato seeks the intervals of the ratios between the parts of the soul
Chapter 35: How the intervals of the double and triple numbers are filled
Chapter 36: The division of the soul; motion; and time
Chapter 37: The arrangement of the living world through its limbs; the opposite movements of revolutions; and the intersectors of axes and orbits
Chapter 38: Right and left in the cosmos; the movements of the firmament, of the planets, and of the fixed stars; the arrangement of the soul
Chapter 39: The great harmony, within the cosmic being, between the soul and the heavens and between the heavens and the elements, in relation to the higher worlds and the orders of divinities
Chapter 40 Those things which come into being directly from God, and those things which come into being through intermediaries; the words of God in relation to the gods; and the providence of the gods
Chapter 41: Man’s relationship to soul and body
Chapter 42: How the world is composed of mind and necessity
Chapter 43: Natural phenomena are based on the principles of mathematics; concerning the elements and compounds
Chapter 44: More on man: how much regard he gives to the soul, and how much to the body
Chapter 45: On the outward and inward breath, according to Plato and Galen
Chapter 46: On the good health and poor health of the body and the soul
The Chapter Divisions of the Timaeus with brief commentaries as given by Marsilio Ficino
Notes To The Compendium
Soul Numbers
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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