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La Historia Más Fascinante del Mundo: 4.6 Mil Millones de Años Explicados En 24 Horas / The Most Fascinating Story in the WorldUn viaje extraordinario al pasado de nuestro planeta a travs de las agujas de un reloj de 24 horas. Millones de aos, en horas, minutos y segundos! La historia ms fascinante del mundo es sin duda la de nuestro planeta. Si la comprimiramos en un reloj de 24 horas nos daramos cuenta de que nuestra presencia en la Tierra apenas representa 4 segundos! Entonces qu sucedi antes de nuestra llegada? A travs de las pginas de este libro, nos sumergimos en un
Un viaje extraordinario al pasado de nuestro planeta a través de las agujas de un reloj de 24 horas. ¡Millones de años, en horas, minutos y segundos! La historia más fascinante del mundo es sin duda la de nuestro planeta. Si la comprimiéramos en un reloj de 24 horas nos daríamos cuenta de que nuestra presencia en la Tierra apenas representa ¡4 segundos! Entonces... ¿qué sucedió antes de nuestra llegada? A través de las páginas de este libro, nos sumergimos en un viaje emocionante a épocas del pasado. ¿Sabías que al principio la Tierra giraba tan deprisa que los días duraban 5 horas? ¿Y que llegó a convertirse en una gran bola de nieve? Imagina que hace 250 millones de años nuestro planeta estaba habitado por reptiles, dinosaurios y escorpiones de ¡hasta 70 centímetros! Un precioso libro ilustrado con el que entender fácilmente la compleja historia de la Tierra, desde su formación hasta que la poblaron los primeros seres humanos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An extraordinary voyage to the planet's past framed by hands of a 24-hour clock. Millions of years in hours, minutes and seconds!The most fascinating story of all is without doubt the story of our planet. If we could condense its existence into 24 hours, humans would be present for just the last 4 seconds! So ... what was going on during all the time before that? This book immerses us in an exciting journey through the planet's previous eras. Did you know that in the beginning, Earth revolved so quickly around the Sun that each day lasted just 5 hours? And that at one point in its past, the Earth was nothing more than a giant snowball? Go back 250 million years, and it was home to dinosaurs and scorpions up to 70 centimeters long! A gorgeously illustrated book that makes it easy to understand the complex history of Earth, from its formation to the emergence of the first human beings.
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★★★★★ 5
An Excellent Choice
Format: Paperback
Excellent introduction, notes and translation.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
★★★★★ 5
Five Stars
Format: Paperback
Professor Cornford's translation with running commentary is definitive.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015
★★★★★ 5
Plato's dialogue about the physical world
Format: Paperback
The two biggest topics in the Timaeus are astronomy and the elements of bodies, which are constructed using triangles and the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and cube. I would like to see a translation of the Timaeus that uses it as a way to introduce all the astronomy that appears in the dialogue. Introducing the astronomy does not mean just talking in words about spheres or the zodiac or the ecliptic, but actually explaining how these were used by astronomers. Cornford has much to say, but to someone who has not learned any Greek astronomy his commentary will be opaque and hard to use. I didn't know the astronomy well enough to readily understand Cornford's explanations. I plan to learn more classical Greek astronomy, perhaps using Evans'
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Before reading this you should have read the Republic and know some classical Greek natural philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy. Although Cornford's commentary makes the dialogue staccato, I am glad for it because I wouldn't otherwise have understood much of what Plato says. The Timaeus and the Parmenides are the two dialogues of Plato that one needs commentary to understand; the Parmenides demands the commentary because so much of what is happening depends on the original language, and the Timaeus demands the commentary because of all the things the reader is supposed to be familiar with.
The following is a list of topics I kept while reading the dialogue: theory of Forms 27d-28a, 51a-52a; harmonics 35b-36b; time 37c-38e, 39b-e; vision 45b-46c, 67c-68d; space 52b; surfaces 53c; weight 62d-63e; sound 67a-67c; physiology 70c-79e, 80d-86a; antiperistasis 79e-80c.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2015
★★★★★ 4
Helpful, but Waterfield is better for an intro
Format: Paperback
This is basically a scholarly paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on the Timaeus. It's really good for what it is, but I don't recommend it as your first introduction to the Timaeus -- rather, I recommend Waterfield:
http://www.amazon.com/Timaeus-Critias-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-ebook/dp/B006NTMD16
A problem with using Cornford as an introduction is that he comments on everything, and it's hard to figure out what the main themes are. I tried reading Cornford as an intro and gave it up, but once I'd read Waterfield I found Cornford extremely helpful both in elucidating passages further than Waterfield does, and in interpreting passages Waterfield doesn't cover. So if you're looking to learn about the Timaeus, I'd suggest Waterfield first and Cornford second (or Cornford alongside Waterfield).
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2014
★★★★★ 5
Cornford's running commentary is arguably the best suited to fulfill this desire
Readers of any of Plato's works are bound to feel they might profit from various commentaries. His Timaeus, in particular, may be said to elicit such a hope because of number and intricacy of its details. Cornford's running commentary is arguably the best suited to fulfill this desire: it helps make clear the integrity of the dialogue as a whole and illumines the specific points along the way. Although this work is certainly dated, originally published in 1937, it is certainly one of the best full commentaries on the Timaeus.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2014