Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions

In Defense of a Heresy

AvAlan C. Bowen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:2012-11-29
Mått:155 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:1 520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska, Klassisk grekiska
Serie:Philosophia Antiqua
Antal sidor:330
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004227088

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Alan C. Bowen, Ph.D. (1977) Philosophy, University of Toronto, is Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (Princeton). He has numerous publications in the history of science and philosophy, including New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De caelo (with Christian Wildberg).

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"This book is a careful study of Simplicius’ In de caelo 2.10-12 in the context of challenges to late-ancient Platonism raised by John Philoponus. It will be valuable to scholars interested in the efforts of the Athenian Platonists to create a synthesis of the thought of Plato, Aristotle and Ptolemy, in the history of ancient Greek astronomy and its sources, and in the historiography of early science." Nathan Sidoli, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.03.62.

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsConventionsList of FiguresThe ArgumentIntroduction1. The Heresy of Non-Homocentric Aetherial Motion2. The Heretical Rejection of All Hypotheses3. Simplicius, the Apologist4. Simplicius, the Historian5. ConclusionTranslationIn de caelo 2.10 The proportionality of the planetary speedsIn de caelo 2.11 The sphericity of the wandering starsIn de caelo 2.12 The proportionality of the planetary motionsFiguresCommentsIn de caelo 2.10In de caelo 2.11In de caelo 2.12BibliographyIndex of PassagesPassages in I.G. Kidd 1988–1999, vol.1Index of NamesIndex of Subjects