Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 2 9781472551979, 9780715624333

Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's work, both because it explains some of his c

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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 2
9781472551979, 9780715624333

Book 3 of Aristotle's Physics primarily concerns two important concepts for his theory of nature: change and infini

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Aristotle's account of place, in which he defined a thing's place as the inner surface of its nearest immobile

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Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotl

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Philoponus’ commentary on the last part of Aristotle’s Physics Book 4 does not offer major alternatives to Aristotle’s s

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Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from withou

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Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited frag

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Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from withou

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This text by Philoponus, the sixth-century commentator on Aristotle, is notable for its very informative Introduction to

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The Posterior Analytics contains Aristotle’s Philosophy of Science. In Book 2, Aristotle asks how the scientist discover

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Introduction -- Translator's note -- Departures from Vitelli's Text -- Translation: On Aristotle Physics 2 --

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