New perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo / edited by Alan C. Bowen and Christian Wildberg.

• Superior document: Philosophia antiqua, v. 117
• TeilnehmendeR: Bowen, Alan C.; Wildberg, Christian.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia antiqua ; v. 117.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Notes: Papers presented at a series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge and Paris in the late 1990's.

This volume is the first collection of scholarly articles in any modern language devoted to Aristotle’s De caelo . It grew out of series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge, and Paris in the late 1990’s. Since Aristotle’s De caelo had a major influence on cosmological thinking until the time of Galileo and Kepler and helped to shape the way in which Western civilization imagined its natural environment and place at the center of the universe, familiarity with the main doctrines of the De caelo is a prerequisite for an understanding of much of the thought and culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages. This book is also available in paperback.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / A. Bowen and C. Wildberg -- Introduction / A. Bowen and C. Wildberg -- From Plato’s Timaeus To Aristotle’s De Caelo: The Case Of The Missing World Soul / Thomas K. Johansen -- The Possibilities Of Being And Not-Being In De Caelo 1.11–12 / Sarah Broadie -- Two Standards For Inquiry In Aristotle’s De Caelo / Robert Bolton -- Natural, Unnatural, And Preternatural Motions: Contrariety And The Argument For The Elements In De Caelo 1.2–4 / R.J. Hankinson -- Why Does The Earth Move To The Center? An Examination Of Some Explanatory Strategies In Aristotle’s Cosmology / Mohan Matthen -- The Theory Of The Elements In De Caelo 3 And 4 / Mary Louise Gill -- The Argument For The Sphericity Of The Universe In Aristotle’s De Caelo: Astronomy And Physics / Pierre Pellegrin -- De Caelo 2.2 And Its Debt To The De Incessu Animalium / James G. Lennox -- Why Stars Have No Feet: Explanation And Teleology In Aristotle’s Cosmology / Mariska E.M.P.J. Leunissen -- The Astrologization Of The Aristotelian Cosmos: Celestial Influences On The Sublunar World In Aristotle, Alexander Of Aphrodisias, And Averroes / Gad Freudenthal -- Aristotle’s De Caelo: A Bibliography / A. Bowen and C. Wildberg -- Index Of Passages Cited / A. Bowen and C. Wildberg -- Index Of Subjects / A. Bowen and C. Wildberg -- Index Of Modern Authors / A. Bowen and C. Wildberg -- Index Of Ancient And Medieval Authors / A. Bowen and C. Wildberg.