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On Aristotle "On the Heavens 1.5-9" (Hardcover)
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On Aristotle "On the Heavens 1.5-9" (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Aristotle argues in "On the Heavens" 1.5-7 that there can be no
infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than
one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is
no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one
argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four
elements, earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural
destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it
and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist
Simplicius, who wrote the commentary translated here in the sixth
century AD, tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected
by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time,
he tells us the different theories of acceleration in Greek
philosophy.
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