Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.1-4 by Simplicius

Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.1-4

Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Simplicius with Jim Hankinson (Translator)

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history philosophy science challenging informative medium-paced
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In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, no...

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