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Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy - Couverture rigide

Bowen, Alan C.

 
9789004227088: Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004227083 ISBN 13 : 9789004227088
Editeur : Brill, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alan C. Bowen, Ph.D. (1977) Philosophy, University of Toronto, is Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (Princeton). He has numerous publications in the history of science and philosophy, including New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo (with Christian Wildberg).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004227083
ISBN 13 
9789004227088
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
352
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