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Simplicius on the planets and their motions : in defense of a heresy
- Title
- Simplicius on the planets and their motions : in defense of a heresy / by Alan C. Bowen.
- Author
- Bowen, Alan C.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Simplicius, of Cilicia
- Description
- xviii, 329 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Though the digression closing Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's De caelo 2.12 has long been misread as a history of early Greek planetary theory, it is in fact a creative reading of Aristotle to maintain the authority of the De caelo as a sacred text in Late Platonism and to refute the polemic mounted by the Christian, John Philoponus. This book shows that the critical question forced on Simplicius was whether his school's acceptance of Ptolemy's planetary hypotheses entailed a rejection of Aristotle's argument that the heavens are made of a special matter that moves by nature in a circle about the center of the cosmos and, thus, a repudiation of the thesis that the cosmos is uncreated and everlasting."--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Philosophia antiqua ; volume 133
- Uniform Title
- Philosophia antiqua ; v. 133.
- Alternative Title
- On the planets and their motions
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes an English translation of sections 2.10 to 2.12 of Simplicius' Aristotelis De caelo commentaria--Pages [97]-177.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page [299]-311) and indexes.
- Contents
- The Argument. Introduction ; The Heresy of Non-Homocentric Aetherial Motion ; The Heretical Rejection of All Hypotheses ; Simplicius, the Apologist ; Simplicius, the Historian ; Conclusion. -- Translation. In de caelo 2.10 The proportionality of the planetary speeds ; In de caelo 2.11 The sphericity of the wandering stars ; In de caelo 2.12 The proportionality of the planetary motions ; Figures. -- Comments. In de caelo 2.10 ; In de caelo 2.11 ; In de caelo 2.12.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-1079
- ISBN
- 9789004227088 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004227083 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9789004241718 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012035045
- OCLC
- 808810919
- Author
- Bowen, Alan C.
- Title
- Simplicius on the planets and their motions : in defense of a heresy / by Alan C. Bowen.
- Imprint
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Philosophia antiqua ; volume 133Philosophia antiqua ; v. 133.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page [299]-311) and indexes.
- Added Author
- Simplicius, of Cilicia. Aristotelis De caelo commentaria. 2.10-12. English.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-1079