Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time 9781472552150, 9780715622520

Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present

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Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time
9781472552150, 9780715622520

In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopti

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Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A. D. He pr

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Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle’s ideas. It defines nature and distinguishes natura

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Aristotle’s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters

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Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack

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This is the first complete translation into a modern language of the first part of the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of

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Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the un

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Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be m

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Commenting on the end of Aristotle On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato’s theory o

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In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and

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