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Why Five Worlds? Plato's Timaeus 55C–D

✍ Scribed by Paparazzo, Ernesto


Book ID
121087681
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
168 KB
Volume
44
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6390

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