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Paperback Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.1-4 Book
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ISBN: 1472557379

ISBN13: 9781472557377

Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.1-4

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In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the...

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