3. Call number: IUA00156 Timaeus vel de Natura divini Platonis, Marsilio Ficino interprete: per Franciscum Zampinum recognita.

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1 1. Call number: IUQ00719 v.4 Quartus Tomus in quo Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera Philosophica, nuper ad fidem vetustissimorum exemplarium diligentissime recognita, quorum catalogum sequens indicabit pagina. This book is the fourth volume in an edition of Cicero s works published at Venice by Luca Antonius Junta between 1534 and This particular volume was printed in 1536 and contains some of Cicero s philosophic texts. The pages displayed show the beginning of Cicero s partial translation of Plato s Timaeus. The portion shown gives the preface to Cicero s translation, then the section translating Timaeus opening questions and explanation thereof: What is that which always is and has no becoming, and what is that which becomes but never is? 2. Call number: 881 P5ti.Lc 1617 Chalcidii V. C. Timaeus De Platonis Translatus. Item Eiusdem in eundem Commentarius. Iohannes Meursius Recensuit, denuò edidit, et Notas addidit. This volume contains a seventeenth century edition of the Latin translation and commentary on the Timaeus originally produced by Calcidius in the fourth century. The Dutch scholar Johannes Meursius edited Calcidius work and provided additional notes in Greek and Latin on the translation. He also compiled the accompanying index of Platonic words and topics. The volume was printed in Leiden by Justus à Colster in The pages displayed are from Calcidius commentary on the Timaeus, in particular from the section treating the motions of the stars. 3. Call number: IUA00156 Timaeus vel de Natura divini Platonis, Marsilio Ficino interprete: per Franciscum Zampinum recognita. This volume contains Marsilio Ficino s Latin translation of the Timaeus, edited by Francisco Zampino. The text was printed in Paris by Prigent Calvarin in 1536 (a reprint of the original 1527 edition) and later bound together with four other texts published between 1532 and 1557 by various printers. In order to bind the Timaeus with these other texts, the pages had to be cut down to a uniform size. This process caused the truncation of certain marginal notes written prior to the rebinding. These notes reference other commentators on the Timaeus, including Cicero, Proclus, and Calcidius. The pages displayed translate a passage from the beginning of the Timaeus in which Critias concludes Solon s story and Timaeus begins his cosmological speech.

2 4. Call number: Q881 P Platonis Omnia Opera Cum Commentariis Procli in Timaeum & Politica, thesauro veteris Philosophiae maximo. This Greek edition of the Platonic corpus was prepared by Johannes Oporinus and Simon Grynaeus. It was printed at Basel by Joannes Valderum in March In addition to the text of Platonic works, the edition contains commentaries by Proclus on the Timaeus and the Republic. Notes in Latin, Greek, and French have been written throughout the volume. The pages displayed are from the section of the Timaeus in which the composition of the world s body and soul is described. The chart on the right page relates to Proclus commentary on the Timaeus 35b 36b, where Plato states that the Demiurge created harmonious divisions of the world soul. The chart uses an alphanumeric system (α=1, β=2, etc.) to show how the harmonious proportions calculated in the Timaeus form a musical scale. 5. Call number: xq881 P v.3 cop.2 Platonis, Augustissimi Philosophi, omnium quae extant operum. Tomus Tertius. This edition of the Timaeus contains the translation and notes of Jean de Serres, a Calvinist Huguenot who sought to extirpate Neoplatonic elements from translation and commentary on Platonic works. Serres aim was to perceive the doctrine of Plato through study of the original texts. The volume was printed by Henri Estienne in 1578; the famous reference system known as Stephanus pagination was based upon this edition of the Platonic corpus. The Latin translation of each Platonic dialogue is set alongside an edition of the original Greek text. Marginal notes give references to other philosophical texts, such as Cicero. The pages displayed correspond to the section of the Timaeus in which the composition and other characteristics of the world s body are described. 6. Call number: xq.881 P5.Lf 1484 v.2 Plato Ficini. This volume, printed in 1484 in Florence, contains the Platonis Opera Omnia of Marsilio Ficino, the leading Platon scholar of the 15 th century and head of the Platonic Academy in Florence. The translation of the Timaeus is prefaced by Ficino s commentary on the work, titled Compendium in Timeum. The pages displayed translate the portion of the Timaeus in which the lesser gods are created and proceed to create human beings. These pages also bear traces of a later reader. S/he has marked the second column of the left page with marginal lines and an abbreviation meaning Nota bene ( mark well ). The right page includes several corrections written in the text. At the top of the right page, the emender has written a testimony to conscientious reading: Doctus lector errores vitabit ( The learned reader will shun errors ).

3 7. Call number: xq881 P5.Lf 1571 Omnia D. Platonis Opera Tralatione Marsilii Ficini, et ad Graecum codicem accurata castigatione. Jacobus Tapia Aldana edited and corrected this edition of Marsilio Ficino s Platonis Opera Omnia. The volume, which includes a detailed index, was printed at Venice by Hieronymus Scotus in The pages displayed correspond to the Timaeus passage 29d 38e. Subjects covered in this section include the reason for the creation of the world, the composition of the world s body and soul, the union of the world s soul with its body, and the creation of time. Brief topical captions have been written in the margins of the text. 8. Call number: 881 P5.Lf 1592 v.3 Divini Platonis Operum Omnium Quae Extant, Ex Latina Marsilii Ficini versione nunc multò accuratius quàm antea cum Graeco contextu collata, & quàm plurimis locis emendata, Tomus Tertius. This diminutive codex contains a portion of Marsilio Ficino s Platonis Opera Omnia. Simon Grynaeus, an anonymous Lyonnaise editor, and Estienne Tremblay have all revised the text appearing in this edition. Jacobus Stoer printed this three volume edition of Ficino s text at Geneva in The volumes are small enough to be used as portable reading material. Marginal notes of two sorts are found in this translation. Notes in normal type give different readings or translations of the text along with the scholar from whom these readings stem; scholars cited include Cicero & Proclus. Notes in italics are topical headings or interpretations of the text. The pages displayed translate the Timaeus passage in which the periods of heavenly bodies and the completion of the Perfect Year are described, as well as the creation of stars and gods. 9. Call number: 881 P5ti.Fl 1582 Le Timee de Platon: Traittant de la Nature du monde, & de l homme, & de ce qui concerne universellement tant l ame, que le corps des deux: translaté de Grec en Français, avec l exposition des lieux plus obscurs & difficiles. This translation and commentary on the Timaeus by the humanist Loys le Roy contains the first known translation of the dialogue from Greek into French. The codex is from the second printing of Le Roy s translation, produced in Paris by Abel l Angelier in Marginal numbers, such as the 4 printed on the left page displayed, direct the reader to endnotes printed after the section. The Timaeus passage shown treats bodily diseases, particularly how they arise and are propogated. The Greek note in the margin is a direct quotation from Timaeus 82e: ὅταν γὰρ τηκομένη σάρξ, meaning whenever flesh decomposes.

4 10. Call number: q881 P5.Lf 1556 Omnia Divini Platonis Opera, tralatione Marsilii Ficini, emendatione, et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei, summa diligentia repurgata. This volume contains an edition of Marsilio Ficino s Platonis Opera Omnia that was emended and collated with a Greek text by Simon Grynaeus. Grynaeus edition of Ficino s text was first published in The volume shown is a reprint of this edition with the addition of a new index, printed by Giovanni Maria Bonelli at Venice in The pages displayed translate the Timaeus passage 18a 24d the beginning of Critias account of Solon s visit to Egypt. A fine Italic hand has written topical captions in the margins. 11. Call number: xq881 A v.2 Opera. This book is part of Aldus Manutius editio princeps of the Aristotelian corpus, which he published himself in five folio volumes at Venice in This edition was the first major Greek prose corpus to be printed in its original language and set the standard for the development of Greek type in the fifteenth century. The pages displayed include a passage from De Caelo in which Aristotle mentions the receptacle described in Plato s Timaeus as the receiver of all things. This passage, De Caelo 306b15 22, begins in line 10 on the left page shown with the words Ἀλλ ἔοικεν ἡ φύσις. 12. Call number: MS q881 A This manuscript contains, among other material, anonymous commentaries on a number of Aristotelian works. Multiple fifteenth century hands are represented in the manuscript, and some of the scribes give their names. Judging by the extensive notes and highlighting throughout the volume, this codex probably belonged to a student. The pages displayed contain a commentary on book IV of Aristotle s Physics with many marginal notes. The right page includes a passage discussing Plato s conception of space and matter (which Aristotle mentions in Physics 209b). While the cursive hand is very difficult to read, there is an abbreviation (plto) roughly in the middle of the right column that probably represents Plato. It is also possible to make out the phrase antiqui phī ( ancient philosopher, the second word being an abbreviation for philosophi) in this section.

5 13. Call number: Q521.3 K44p 1621 Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium Cosmographicum de admirabili proportione orbium caelestium: deque causis caelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumque periodicorum genuinis & propriis, Demonstratum per quinque regularia corpora Geometrica. Published at Frankfurt by Erasmus Kempfer, this volume contains the second edition of Johannes Kepler s astronomical work, Mysterium Cosmographicum (originally published in 1596), along with copious notes by Kepler himself. It was in this work that the astronomer proposed a model of the solar system using Platonic solids. The pages displayed show an illustration of Kepler s distinctive model of the universe. 14. Call number: IUQ03582 Harmonices Mundi. This volume is a first edition of Johannes Kepler s Harmonices Mundi, printed by Johannes Plancus at Linz (Austria) in In this work, Kepler explains his vision of harmony and congruence in geometrical forms and in the physical world. He also details his discovery of the Third Law of planetary motion. The pages displayed include a lengthy quotation from Proclus and a marginal note indicating that Kepler considered Plato s Timaeus as a commentary on the Biblical book of Genesis. 15. Platonic solids [Print following labels for solids] Tetrahedron Cube Octahedron Dodecahedron Icosahedron

6 16. Globe Cary, John, , and William Cary, Cary s New Celestial Globe... Made and Sold by J. W. Cary London, January 1, 1800 The Cary globe and its exhibit case were purchased in the Spring of 1985 through the generosity of the University of Illinois Library Friends at Urbana Champaign. 17. Call number: xq B 34lu Uranometria. The Uranometria, published by the lawyer and amateur astronomer Johann Bayer, was the first astronomical work to be considered a collection of star maps (rather than symbolic pictures). It was printed at Augsburg by Christopher Mangus in 1603, and the elaborate copperplate engravings were done by Alexander Mair. One important feature of Bayer s atlas is his new system of stellar nomenclature he assigned Greek letters to brighter stars, generally by order of magnitude. The plates displayed show Bayer s map of the constellation Cancer. 18. Call number: Q520 P95a 1496 Epytoma Joannis De Monte Regio in Almagestum Ptolomei. Georg von Peurbach began work on this condensed version of Ptolemy s Almagest; his pupil and friend Johannes Müller von Königsberg (known by the pseudonym Regiomontanus) finished it. Printed at Venice by Johannes Hamman in 1496, the book became a renowned astronomical guide. The work also includes a woodcut portrait of Ptolemy and Regiomontanus underneath a large celestial sphere. The pages displayed are from the eighth book of the epitome, the section covering positions of the stars.