Philoponus : on Aristotle physics 4.6-9

✍ Scribed by Philoponus & Pamela Huby

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press;Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: Ancient commentators on Aristotle
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution. His commentary is translated here without the previously translated excursus, the Corollary on Void, also available in this series. Philoponus rejects Aristotle's attack on the very idea of void and of the possibility of motion in it, even though he thinks that void never occurs in fact. Philoponus' argument was later to be praised by Galileo.

This volume contains the first English translation of Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Contents
Conventions
Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
Notes
Bibliography
English-Greek Glossary
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Greek-English Index
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Index of Passages
Subject Index
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✦ Subjects

Aristotle. -- Physics. -- Book 4. Physics -- Early works to 1800. Place (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800. Science, Ancient. Physics (Aristotle) Physics. Place (Philosophy) Aristotle. Physics. Book 4.