Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy
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 mounted by the Christian, John Philoponus. This book shows that the critical question forced on Simplicius was whether his school’s acceptance of Ptolemy’s planetary hypotheses entailed a rejection of Aristotle’s argument that the heavens are made of a special matter that moves by nature in a circle about the center of the cosmos and, thus, a repudiation of the thesis that the cosmos is uncreated and everlasting.
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Year:
2013
Publisher:
Brill Academic Pub
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
9004227083
ISBN 13:
9789004227088
Series:
Philosophia Antiqua 133
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PDF, 4.59 MB
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english, 2013
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