Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

by J.O. Urmson and Paul Lettinck

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8.
The Simplicius text, which consists of his comments on Aristotle's treatment of the void in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472558049
• ISBN13: 9781472558046
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"