Simplicius on the planets and their motions : in defense of a heresy / / by Alan C. Bowen.

Though the digression closing Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo 2.12 has long been misread as a history of early Greek planetary theory, it is in fact a creative reading of Aristotle to maintain the authority of the De caelo as a sacred text in Late Platonism and to refute the polemic m...

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Superior document:Philosophia antiqua : a series of studies on ancient philosophy, v. 133
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Philosophia antiqua ; v. 133.
Physical Description:1 online resource (351 p.)
Notes:Includes an English translation of sections 2.10 to 2.12 of Simplicius' Aristotelis De caelo commentaria--Pages [97]-177.
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