Physics Book 4 is one of Aristotle's most interesting works, discussing place, time and vacuum. Themistius was a fourth-century AD orator and essayist, not only a philosopher, and he thought that only paraphrases of Aristotle were needed, because there were already such comprehe…
"Physics Book 4 is one of Aristotle's most interesting works, discussing place, time and vacuum. Themistius was a fourth-century AD orator and essayist, not only a philosopher, and he thought that only paraphrases of Aristotle were needed, because there were already such compreh…
General Editor: Richard Sorabji Research Professor of Philosophy atKing's College London. In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenide…
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3--4. Translated by Pamela Huby and C.C.W. Taylor. In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides a…
"In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onw…
"In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onw…
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3--4. Translated by Pamela Huby and C.C.W. Taylor. In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides a…
On Aristotle physics 4.6-9
by Huby, Pamela M., Philoponus, John
fromAncient commentators on Aristotle
"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, t…
On Aristotle, physics 4.6-9
by Huby, Pamela M., Philoponus, John
fromAncient commentators on Aristotle
On Aristotle Physics 4.6-9
by Huby, Pamela M., Philoponus, John
fromAncient commentators on Aristotle
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, th…
On Aristotle physics 4.6-9
by Huby, Pamela M., Philoponus, John
fromAncient commentators on Aristotle
"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, t…