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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.6-9

Pamela Huby translator Pamela Huby editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd Nov '12

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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.6-9 cover

This is the first translation into English of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Philoponus on Aristotle's Physics Book 4, chapters 6-9.

Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution. His commentary is translated here without the previously translated excursus, the Corollaryon Void, also available in this series. Philoponus rejects Aristotle's attack on the very idea of void and of the possibility of motion in it, even though he thinks that void never occurs in fact. Philoponus' argument was later to be praised by Galileo. This volume contains the first English translation of Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

ISBN: 9781780930916

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144 pages