Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.6-9

✍ Scribed by Huby, Pamela(Translation)

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• 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, theCorollaryon 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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Conventions......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Textual Emendations......Page 10
Translation......Page 12
4.6......Page 14
4.7......Page 24
4.8......Page 38
4.9......Page 76
Notes......Page 104
Bibliography......Page 106
A......Page 108
C......Page 109
D......Page 110
F......Page 111
I......Page 112
M......Page 113
P......Page 114
R......Page 115
S......Page 116
T......Page 117
Z......Page 118
A......Page 120
D......Page 123
E......Page 125
H......Page 127
K......Page 129
L......Page 132
M......Page 133
P......Page 134
S......Page 137
T......Page 139
Z......Page 140
Index of Passages......Page 142
M......Page 144
Z......Page 145