Description: Simplicius : On Aristotle on the Heavens, Paperback by Simplicius; Hankinson, R. J. (TRN), ISBN 1472557425, ISBN-13 9781472557421, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Aristotle argues in On the Heavens that there can be no infinitely large body, and in that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in , he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the commentary in the sixth century AD (here translated into English), tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time, he tells us the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.
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Book Title: Simplicius : On Aristotle on the Heavens
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Simplicius: on Aristotle on the Heavens 1. 5-9
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Subject: Cosmology, General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science
Author: Simplicius
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
