Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.1-4 9781472552204, 9780715630709

In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth ele

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Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.1-4
9781472552204, 9780715630709

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

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

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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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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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This is the first English translation of Simplicius “responses to Philoponus” Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the W

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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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The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of whic

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In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination

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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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