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Philoponus: On Aristotle Meteorology 1.4-9, 12: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Traducere de Inna Kupreeva Autor Philoponus
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2014
Of Philoponus' commentary on the Meteorology only that on chapters 1-9 and 12 of the first book has been preserved. It is translated in this series in two volumes, the first covering chapters 1-3; the second (this volume) chapters 4-9 and 12. The subjects discussed here include the nature of fiery and light phenomena in the sky, the formation of comets, the Milky Way, the properties of moist exhalation, and the formation of hail. Philoponus pays special attention to the distinction between the apparent and the real among the sky phenomena; he criticises Aristotle's theory of the Milky Way as sublunary, and argues for its origin in the heavenly realm; gives a detailed exposition of Aristotelian theory of antiperistasis, mutual replacement of the hot and the cold, as the mechanism of condensation and related processes. As in the first volume, Philoponus demonstrates scholarly erudition and familiarity with methods and results of post-Aristotelian Greek science. Despite the fragmented state of the work and the genre of commentary, the reader will find the elements of a coherent picture of the cosmos based on a radical re-thinking of Aristotelian meteorology and physics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472558206
ISBN-10: 1472558200
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The translation is furnished with an Introduction, Notes and Indexes

Notă biografică

Inna Kupreeva is Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Cuprins

IntroductionTextual EmendationsTranslationNotesBibliographyEnglish-Greek GlossaryGreek-English IndexIndex of Passages CitedGeneral Index

Descriere

In this commentary of Aristotle's Meteorology, the Neoplatonist Philoponus discusses subjects such as the nature of fiery and light phenomena in the sky, the formation of comets, the Milky Way, the properties of moist exhalation, and the formation of hail.