In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth ele
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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 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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Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the un
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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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The subject of Aristotle’s On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist be
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This is the first English translation of Simplicius “responses to Philoponus” Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the W
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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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This is the fourth and last volume of the translation in this series of the commentary on Aristotle On the Soul, wrongly
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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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