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Philoponus: On Aristotle Meteorology 1.4-9, 12 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Philoponus: On Aristotle Meteorology 1.4-9, 12 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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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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