Hi David,
   Since you're reading Plato, why not look a the "Timaeus."
There is a nice Bobbs Merrill version, tr. by F. Cornford,
with the title, _Plato's Cosmology_.  Cornford supplies
a running commentary.   The book was tremendously influential
as a cosmology, for hundreds of years.
   Peace.  Hal.
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