Table of Contents -- "Necessity" -- Plato's Cosmic Manual: Introduction, Reader's Guide, and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Plato's Timaeus: Some Resonances in Modern Physics and Cosmology -- 2 Cosmic Craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism -- 3 Philosopher-Kings and Craftsman-Gods -- 4 The Place of Cosmology in Plato's Later Dialogues -- 5 Maker or Father? The Demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus -- 6 Plato on (just about) Everything: Some Observations on the Timaeus and Other Dialogues -- 7 Visualizing Platonic Space -- 8 The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies: Something from Nothing? -- 9 The Timaeus and the Critique of Presocratic Vortices -- 10 What's the Matter? Some Neo-Platonist Answers -- 11 Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean Receptacle* -- 12 Should Aristotle Have Recognized Final Causes in Plato's Timaeus? -- 13 Aristotle on Plato on Weight -- 14 What Makes a Myth eikôs? Remarks Inspired by Myles Burnyeat's 'EIKÔS MYTHOS' -- 15 The Epistemological Section (29b-d) of the Proem in Timaeus' Speech: M. F. Burnyeat on eikôs mythos, and Comparison with Xenophanes B34 and B35 -- 16 A Time for Learning and for Counting: Egyptians, Greeks, and Empirical Processes in Plato's Timaeus -- 17 Narrative Orders in the Timaeus and Critias -- 18 Timaeus in Tinseltown: Atlantis in Film -- 19 The Atlantis Effect: The Lost Origins of Architecture -- 20 Plato's Timaeus and the Aesthetics of "Animate Form" -- 21 Time and Change in an Eternal Universe -- Index Locorum -- General Index.