title: The Theory of Motion in Plato's Later Dialogues
author: Joseph Bright Skemp
description: Originally published in 1942, this book examines Plato's later dialogues, particularly Timaeus, in terms of their dependence on pre-Socratic philosophy and other aspects of ancient thought and life. Skemp assesses Plato's views on reality and how it could be more than his idealized Forms.
zlib_text: _Translated from the French text, originally published as_ “ΣΩZEIN TA
  ΦAINOMENA: _Essai sur la notion de théorie physique de Platon à Galilée_ ”
  Annales de philosophie chrétienne, _79/156 (ser. 4, VI), 113–38, 277–302,
  352–77, 482–514, 576–92. In 1908 it was reprinted under the same title by A.
  Hermann et Fils_.
  
  
  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
  
  
  The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
  
  
  English translation and Introductory Essay
  
  
  © 1969 by The University of Chicago
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published 1969.
  
  
  Midway reprint edition 1985
  
  
  Paperback edition 2015
  
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
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  ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16921-7 (paper)
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38165-7 (e-book)
  
  
  DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226381657.001.0001
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _To Save the Phenomena_
  
  
  AN ESSAY ON THE IDEA OF PHYSICAL THEORY FROM PLATO TO GALILEO
  
  
  _Pierre Duhem_
  
  
  Translated from the French by Edmund Dolan and Chaninah Maschler
  
  
  With an Introductory Essa