In his dialog entitled The Timaeus, Plato taught that the cosmos is constructed from regular geometrical figures known as the Pythagorean solids. Wherever one finds an emphasis upon mathematical demonstrations in science, one may credit Plato and the Pythagoreans. Alfred North Whitehead wrote that the history of philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato. Some have said the same about science. This early edition of Plato’s works was edited by Marsilio Ficino, the leading Plato scholar of the Italian Renaissance. It includes Ficino’s own essays on theology and Platonic love. Under the patronage of Lorenzo de Medici, Ficino founded the Florentine Platonic Academy.