Simplicius: on Aristotle physics 6
Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting. This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on Book Six. Simplicius, the greatest ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics whose works have survived to the…
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- Full title :Simplicius : on Aristotle physics 6 / translated by David Konstan.
Summary
Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting. This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on Book Six. Simplicius, the greatest ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics whose works have survived to the present, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle'
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- Publication Date:©1989
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1989
Notes
"Paperback edition first published 2014"--Title page verso
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (188 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781780933665, 1780933665
- oclc:ocn878144230
- LC Classification:Q151.A8
- Dewey Decimal:530
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Translator's note; Translation: On Aristotle Physics 6; Departures from Diels' text; Appendix: the commentators; Bibliography; Philosophers cited by Simplicius; Indexes; Greek-English Index; A; B; D; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; Z; 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; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
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