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Peripatetic cosmology.

The first two books of Aristotle's On the Heavens (De Caelo) offer perspectives on the cosmology of a thinker whose ideas in this area were considered authoritative by many until the seventeenth century. This new translation and commentary provide the modern reader... Read Full Overview

Aristotle was the most renowned Ancient Greek philosopher for nearly 2,000 years, and his most famous work is Rhetoric, his preeminent treatise on the art of persuasion. Aristotle is widely credited with being the forbearer of the study of the art of rhetoric. Still, Aristotle... Read Full Overview

The first two books of Aristotle's On the Heavens (De Caelo) offer perspectives on the cosmology of a thinker whose ideas in this area were considered authoritative by many until the seventeenth century. This new translation and commentary provide the modern reader... Read Full Overview

The Greek philosopher Aristotle is one of the founding figures in Western philosophy. His writings cover a multitude of subjects from physics, poetry, theater, music, politics, science and gods. His writings are the earliest known use of formal logic which was latter incorporated... Read Full Overview

Texte etabli et traduit par P. Moraux. CXC-322 p. Figures. (1965) 2e tirage 2003. G 168]2-251-00042-933 EUR

Aristotle's classic exploration of the cosmos, the nature of existence, and the principles governing the physical universe.

On the Heavens is one of Aristotle's most important works on natural philosophy, offering his influential account of the structure,... Read Full Overview

Le traite Du ciel est l'un des plus importants traites de cosmologie que nous a transmis l'antiquite. aristote y livre une physique generale du domaine ou se trouvent les astres, et s'emploie a montrer que l'univers obeit a des lois physiques et structurelles qui ont un... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

On the Heavens is a work by Aristotle. Aristotle 384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus... Read Full Overview

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements but also with the principles of this sort of substance as many as they may be. For of things constituted by nature some are bodies and... Read Full Overview

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements but also with the principles of this sort of substance as many as they may be. For of things constituted by nature some are bodies and... Read Full Overview