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grbs-15395	Tolsa, Cristian	Philosophical Presentation in Ptolemy’s Harmonics: The Timaeus as a Model for Organization	2015	18	.pdf	application/pdf	6908	238	53	Tolsa ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 55 (2015) 688–705 2015 Cristian Tolsa Philosophical Presentation in Ptolemy’s Harmonics: The Timaeus as a Model for Organization Cristian Tolsa HANKS TO his astronomical observations recorded in the Almagest and the text of his Canobic Inscription,1 we can place Ptolemy’s activity in the middle of the second century at Alexandria.2 His work is mainly valued in the history of science for its contribution to planetary theory, but that same scientific interest that Ptolemy awakens has in part obscured other, not strictly mathematical features of his works.3 The third strategy that Ptolemy displays in the preface of the Almagest is the imitation of philosophical discourse: he does not just say that he is engaging in philosophy, but also writes as though he were writing a philosophical treatise.	cache/grbs-15395.pdf	txt/grbs-15395.txt