Aristotle's de Caelo gamma : introduction, translation and commentary / Theokritos Kouremenos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kouremenos, Theokritos, author.

Series:

Palingenesia ; Band 100.

Palingenesia : Schriftenreihe für Klassische Altertumswissenschaft, 0552-9638 ; Band 100

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De caelo.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, [Germany] : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

Summary:

This is the first full-scale commentary on Aristotle's de Caelo III to appear in recent decades. de Caelo III can serve as a good introduction to Aristotle's physics and its character. In it he answers some very general questions about the elements of all material things except celestial objects: how many these elements are, why they cannot be infinitely many but must be more than one, whether they are eternal or can be generated and decay, and, if the second, how. His discussion is often framed as a critique of rival theories, and he argues systematically against the geometri

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. ARISTOTLE'S COSMOS; 2. THE FIRST SIMPLE BODY; 3. THE EMPEDOCLEAN SIMPLE BODIES AND THEIR COMPOUNDS; 4. CELESTIAL OBJECTS AND THE EMPEDOCLEAN SIMPLE BODIES; 5. THE CONTENTS OF CAEL. Γ; 6. THE PRESENT TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY; TRANSLATION; COMMENTARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF PASSAGES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Aristotle. De caelo. English. 2013.

ISBN:

3-515-10354-6