Plato is the first scientist whose work we still possess. He is our
first writer to interpret the natural world mathematically, and
also the first theorist of mathematics in the natural sciences. As
no one else before or after, he set out why we should suppose a
link between nature and mathematics, a link that has never been
stronger than it is today. Mathematical Plato examines how Plato
organized and justified the principles, terms, and methods of our
mathematical, natural science.
"Roger Sworder deserves our gratitude for drawing attention to
the significance of mathematics in Plato's thought and writings. He
lays the principal discussions out before us with clarity. He also
presents Plato as a theorist of nature: of physics and not just
metaphysics, to use Aristotle's distinction. Not all readers, we
should admit, will be equally convinced of the usefulness of
Plato's science for today, but they will all be led more deeply
into Plato's vision of reality."--ANDREW DAVISON, Westcott House,
Cambridge
"Here is Plato for an anti-Platonic age. The author gives
careful attention to some of the most important passages in the
Platonic dialogues and offers new solutions to some of Plato's most
famous mathematical puzzles. He then considers the implications of
these penetrating studies for the philosophy of science, and the
natural sciences especially. This is a book that revivifies the
core themes of Platonism and restores science to worship. It shows
Roger Sworder to be one of the foremost students of Plato writing
today, and places him in the noble tradition of Thomas
Taylor."--RODNEY BLACKHIRST, author of Primordial Alchemy and
Modern Religion: Essays on Traditional Cosmology
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