Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on<i> P
On Aristotle physics 8.1-5
β Scribed by BodnΓ‘r, M. IstvΓ‘n;Chase, Michael;Share, Michael John;of Cilicia Simplicius
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 257
- Series
- Ancient commentators on Aristotle
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
IntroductionTextual EmendationsTranslationNotesBibliographyEnglish-Greek GlossaryGreek-English IndexIndex of Passages CitedGeneral Index
β¦ Subjects
Physics;Early works;Aristotle. -- Physics. -- Book 8;Physics (Aristotle);Physics -- Early works to 1800
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight, chapters one to five, the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers, provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponusβ Against Aristotle On the Eternity of the World, and
Cover; Contents; Preface; Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8; Translator's Note; Introduction; Translation; Aristotle 5.1; Aristotle 5.2; Aristotle 5.3; Aristotle 5.4; Aristotle 5.5; Aristotle 5.6; Aristotle 6.1; Aristotle 6.2; Aristotle 6.3; Aristotle 6.4; Aristotle 6.5; Aristotle 6.6; Aristotle
Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentators capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotleβs account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will n
Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will