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Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World (Paperback, Nippod)
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Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks
Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting
instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional,
inert and conceivable as void. Philoponus' denial that velocity in
the void would be infinite anticipated Galileo, as did his denial
that speed of fall is proportionate to weight, which Galileo
greatly developed. In the second document Simplicius attacks a lost
treatise of Philoponus which argued for the Christians against the
eternity of the world. He exploits Aristotle's concession that the
world contains only finite power. Simplicius' presentation of
Philoponus' arguments (which may well be tendentious), together
with his replies, tell us a good deal about both Philosophers.
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