<aside> 💡 Task: Pull out sciencey things out of Plato reading

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• "That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state, but that which reason is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is" 1161
• "Was the world... always in existence and without becoming, or created and had it a beginning?" 1161
• "The beginning of everything should be according to nature." 1162
• "Intelligence could not be present in anything that was devoid a soul" 1162 (AI??)
• A lot of talk about God
• "For whenever in any three numbers, whether cube or square, there is a mean..." 1163
• "God placed water and air in the mean between fire and earth, and made them to have the same proportion as far as was possible" 1163-4
• Talking about the creation of the world with a particular focus on God creating it, but how he created it was done in a scientific manner
• First time female pronouns are used are when the soul is being described (1165)
• "Then, taking the three new elements, he mingled them all into one form, compressing by force... he again divided this whole... and proceeded to divide after this manner" (1165)
• "This entire compound he divided lengthwise into two parts which he joined to one another at the center like the letter X" 1166
• Thinks the creator combined the universe with the soul 1166
• "They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time" 1167
• Gets all scientific, but then gets all religious, and then gets all focusing on Greek gods and the devil (Hermes) ??
  • In the future we may have to deal with them fighting, but not right now
• "Those which had the lesser orbit revolving faster, and those which had the larger more slowly" 1168
• Explains the concept of day time and night time really well...relates it to God still and that God did this but clearly understands that it is the Sun that gives us light
• Moon is also considered female
• Gods, birds, water creatures, land creatures 1169
• "And having made it he divided the whole mixture into souls equal in number to the stars and assigned each soul to a star...showed them the nature of the universe...declared to them the laws of destiny" 1170