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Paperback Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.5-9 Book

ISBN: 1472557425

ISBN13: 9781472557421

Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.5-9

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Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it...

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