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  1. Simplicius on the planets and their motions
    in defense of a heresy
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden [u.a.]

    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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Hochschule für Philosophie, Bibliothek
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    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

     

    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789004227088
    RVK Categories: CD 2065 ; FK 49853
    Series: Philosophia antiqua ; 133
    Subjects: Englisch; Übersetzung
    Other subjects: Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo 1,1-4; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo 1,5-9; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De anima 3,1-5; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo 1,10-12; Simplikios (480-538): In Aristotelis de caelo
    Scope: XVIII, 329 S., Graph. Darst., Kt.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [299] - 311

  2. Simplicius on the planets and their motions
    in defense of a heresy
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden [u.a.]

    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... more

    Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademiebibliothek
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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    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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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789004227088
    RVK Categories: CD 2065 ; FK 49853
    Series: Philosophia antiqua ; 133
    Subjects: Englisch; Übersetzung
    Other subjects: Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo 1,1-4; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo 1,5-9; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De anima 3,1-5; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo; Aristoteles (v384-v322): De caelo 1,10-12; Simplikios (480-538): In Aristotelis de caelo
    Scope: XVIII, 329 S., Graph. Darst., Kt.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [299] - 311