Dialogue

 1 Intro| generalities, from the earth to the stars. He lifts up his eyes to
 2 Intro|          coincide...To this end the stars came into being, that the
 3 Intro|           same. Thus then the fixed stars were created, being divine
 4 Intro|             spot, and the wandering stars, in their courses, were
 5 Intro|         where and behind what other stars they appear to disappear—
 6 Intro|        souls equal in number to the stars, and assigned each to a
 7 Intro|             had never seen the sun, stars, and heavens, the words
 8 Intro|           music, the motions of the stars, the forms of atoms, the
 9 Intro|            over the other—the fixed stars keep the ‘wanderers’ of
10 Intro|             the heaven of the fixed stars, partaking of the divine
11 Intro|             the inner the wandering stars. The soul of the world was
12 Intro|           outer circle of the fixed stars and the inner circle of
13 Intro|            are planets or wandering stars; all alike move in circles—
14 Intro|          move in circles—Laws.) The stars are the habitations of the
15 Intro|            attributing to the fixed stars only the most perfect motion—
16 Intro|             the orbits of the fixed stars take a different direction
17 Intro|             the circle of the fixed stars, and they have a second
18 Intro|             of the earth. The fixed stars have also two movements—
19 Intro|          perfect than the wandering stars, as Plato himself terms
20 Intro|             and occultations of the stars, which, if the outer heaven
21 Intro|            of the gods, who are the stars, and of the universe.~There
22 Intro|            be a body like the other stars revolving in space around
23 Intro|              as well as in suns and stars; in the human body as well
24 Intro|             the heaven of the fixed stars’ which is beyond them. It
25 Intro|              Plato made the sun and stars living beings and not masses
26 Intro|            the sun and moon and the stars belong, and the world of
27 Intro|             divisible, of the fixed stars and the planets, of the
28 Timae|             and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets,
29 Timae|    revolving,—in seven orbits seven stars. First, there was the moon
30 Timae|            he assigned to the other stars, and to give all the reasons
31 Timae|          present.~Now, when all the stars which were necessary to
32 Timae|            the periods of the other stars, and they have no name for
33 Timae|         came into being such of the stars as in their heavenly progress
34 Timae|           for this reason the fixed stars were created, to be divine
35 Timae|            same spot; and the other stars which reverse their motion
36 Timae|        souls equal in number to the stars, and assigned each soul
37 Timae|           for had we never seen the stars, and the sun, and the heaven,