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c2pizza's review against another edition
2.0
All of the elegance and beauty of modern physics is noticeably missing in the ancient system. The effort made to understand the world is highly impressive in itself even if Aristotle's system did lead to centuries of misconceptions in the field (and still does today considering the widely-used Kalam Cosmological Argument is based of Aristotelian physics), but compared with light bending around stars, black holes ripping matter apart as it crosses the event horizon, or atoms colliding in a particle accelerator, the visual of things going from rest to motion (or from blackness to whiteness) due to an influence from a prime mover is less than inspiring to say the least.
rosekk's review
3.0
The nature of the text made it a little harder to read, I found, even though the structure Aristotle uses should make it much easier. Because it seems that much of Aristotle's work was just notes, and was never meant to be read by another person, it means parts of it are a little confusing.
mattlikesbooks's review against another edition
2.0
He talks a lot about different kinds of causes and I think we just fundamentally disagree on what is necessary to call something a “cause” of something else. However, one of the better descriptions of the natural world and provides evidence for a primum mobile so thats nice :)
aprater's review against another edition
4.0
The English is old and the logic is sound. This book requires a great deal of thinking, considering, and reviewing to make it to the end with significant comprehension.
italo_carlvino's review against another edition
2.0
Aristotle has interesting, if scientifically incorrect in certain areas, ideas about nature. Note: I read excerpts of this text.
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