Research Catalog

Title

On Aristotle on the heavens 3.7-4.6 / Simplicius ; translated by Ian Mueller.

Author

Simplicius, of Cilicia

Publication

London : Duckworth, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mueller, Ian

Description

viii, 216 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Commenting on the end of Aristotle On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle 's criticisms of Plato's theory of elemental chemistry in the Timaeus. Plato makes the characteristics of the four elements depend on the shapes of component corpuscles and ultimately on the arrangement of the triangles which compose them . Simplicius preserves and criticises the contributions made to the debate in lost works by two other major commentators, Alexander the Aristotelian , and Proclus the Platonist." "In Book 4, Simplicius identifies fifteen objections by Aristotle to Plato's views on weight in the four elements. He finishes Book 4 by elaborating Aristotle's crit icisms of Democritus' theory of weight in the atoms, including Democritus' suggestions about the influence of atomic shape on certain atomic motions." --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Uniform Title

• Aristotelis De caelo commentaria. 3.7-4.6. English
• Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Alternative Title

Aristotelis De caelo commentaria. 3.7-4.6.

Subject

• Aristotle
• Cosmology, Ancient
• Astronomy, Greek > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Glossary and index in English and Greek.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780715638446 (hbk.)
• 0715638440 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 317748925
• SCSB-11958472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library