Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.1-4
| Author | : Simplicius, |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2014-04-10 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781780939063 |
| ISBN 13 | : 178093906X |
| Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain th
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
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 more than one physical world. As a coroll
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Pages: 192
Pages: 192
In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commenta
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Pages: 221
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Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rota
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Pages: 186
Pages: 186
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Pages: 176
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Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on
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Pages: 352
Pages: 352
An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on
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Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Annotation Ancient Meteorologydiscusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only "weath
