Plato (disambiguation) — Plato was a Greek philosopher.Plato may also refer to:People*Plato (comic poet), an Athenian comic poet *Plato of Bactria, a Hellenistic king in Afghanistan *Plato (footballer), a Brazilian soccer player *Platon (bishop of Tallinn) (born Paul… … Wikipedia
PLATO (computer system) — PLATO was the first (circa 1960, on ILLIAC I) generalized computer assisted instruction system. It was widely used starting in the early 1970s, with more than 1000 terminals worldwide. PLATO was originally built by the University of Illinois and… … Wikipedia
Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… … History of philosophy
Plato — /play toh/, n. 1. 427 347 B.C., Greek philosopher. 2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter. * * * orig. Aristocles born 428/427, Athens, or Aegina, Greece died… … Universalium
Greek arithmetic, geometry and harmonics: Thales to Plato — Ian Mueller INTRODUCTION: PROCLUS’ HISTORY OF GEOMETRY In a famous passage in Book VII of the Republic starting at Socrates proposes to inquire about the studies (mathēmata) needed to train the young people who will become leaders of the ideal… … History of philosophy
The Republic (Plato) — The Republic Author(s) Plato … Wikipedia
Symposium (Plato) — The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine… … Wikipedia
Moria (PLATO) — This article is about the game written for the PLATO computer system; for other uses, see Moria. PLATO Moria s splash screen Moria is a dungeon crawl style computer role playing game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with… … Wikipedia
Largest-scale trends in evolution — The history of life on Earth seems to show a clear trend; for example, it seems obvious that there is a trend towards increasing complexity in living organisms. More recent organisms, such as mammals, appear to be much more complex than older… … Wikipedia
Baumé scale — The Baumé scale is a pair of hydrometer scales developed by French pharmacist Antoine Baumé in 1768 to measure density of various liquids. The unit of the Baumé scale has been notated variously as degrees Baumé, B°, Bé° and simply Baumé (the… … Wikipedia
