Philoponus: on Aristotle physics 1.1-3

✍ Scribed by Osborne, Catherine

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 161
Series: Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. In this, the first half of Philoponus' analysis of book one of Aristotle's Physics, the principal themes are metaphysical. Aristotle's opening chapter in the Physics is an abstract reflection on methodology for the investigation of nature, or 'physics'. Aristotle suggests that one must proceed from things tha.;Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Textual Emendations; Translation; Introduction: Aristotle and the study of nature; Notes; Bibliography; English-Greek Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Greek-English Index; A; D; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; X; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z; Index of Passages; A; D; E; H; M; P; S; T; Z.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
Introduction: Aristotle and the study of nature
Notes
Bibliography
English-Greek Glossary
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Greek-English Index
A
D
E
G
H
I
K
L
M
O
P
R
S
T
X
Subject Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
V
W
X
Z
Index of Passages
A
D
E
H
M
P
S
T
Z.

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of nature;Physics;Science, Ancient;Early works;Electronic books;Aristotle. -- Physics. -- Book 1;Physics -- Early works to 1800;Philosophy of nature -- Early works to 1800;Physics (Aristotle)

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