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  • At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

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    Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.

  • Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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    Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America

  • For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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  • Born: 428 BC
  • Died: 348 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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