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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...With this translation all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius commentary o... With this translation all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius commentary on Aristotle s Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1-2 Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the... Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle is an... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius great commentary on... Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius great commentary on Aristotle s Physics all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series between 1992 and 2021 this volume presents a general introduction to the... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...With this translation all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius commentary o... With this translation all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius commentary on Aristotle s Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1-2 Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Simplicius the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle s Physics liv... Simplicius the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle s Physics lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle s works. Those on the Physics which alone come to over 1 300 pages in the original... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Aristotle s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and t... Aristotle s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2 as... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle s ideas a... Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle s ideas as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius great commentary on... Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius great commentary on Aristotle s Physics all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series between 1992 and 2021 this volume presents a general introduction to the... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle s account of the Presocratics a... In this volume Simplicius deals 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... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Book Six of Aristotle s Physics which concerns the continuum shows Aristotle a... 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... more
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Ancient Commentators on Aristo...Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the... Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle is an... more
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Ancient Commentators on Aristo...In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the si... In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus... more
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Ancient Commentators on Aristo...Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5... Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by principle and element in Physics.... more
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Ancient Commentators on Aristo...In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle s account of the Presocrat... 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... more
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