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
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
Simplicius the greatest surviving ancient authority onAristotle 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the arguments in Aristotle s On the Heavens propounds that the world ne...One of the arguments in Aristotle s On the Heavens propounds that the world neither came to be nor will perish. This volume contains the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia s commentary on the first part of this this important work. The...more
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Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance qu...Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance quantity quality relative and six others. Plotinus the founder of Neoplatonism attacked the classification accepting only these first four categories rejecting the other six...more
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