Aristotle S Physics Book I

Author : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813521920

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Aristotle's Physics by Joe Sachs Pdf

Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books"--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Chance
ISBN : 0198720262

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Aristotle's Physics by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Diana Quarantotto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107197787

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Aristotle's Physics Book I by Diana Quarantotto Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of Physics I, the first book of Aristotle's foundational treatise on natural philosophy. While the text has inspired a rich scholarly literature, this is the first volume devoted solely to it to have been published for many years, and it includes a new translation of the Greek text. Book I introduces Aristotle's approach to topics such as matter and form, and discusses the fundamental problems of the study of natural science, examining the theories of previous thinkers including Parmenides. Leading experts provide fresh interpretations of key passages and raise new problems. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as to specialists working in the fields of philosophy and the history of science.

Author : David Bolotin,Aristotle
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791435520

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An Approach to Aristotle's Physics by David Bolotin,Aristotle Pdf

Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0198240929

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Physics by Aristotle Pdf

The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'. Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate new translation of this key text in the history of Western thought, and accompanies the translation with a careful philosophical commentary to guide the reader towards an understanding of the wealth of important and influential arguments and ideas that Aristotle puts forward.

Author : Paul Lettinck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004452459

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Aristotle's Physics and its Reception in the Arabic World by Paul Lettinck Pdf

Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World presents a survey of what Arabic philosophers, as commentators of Aristotle's Physics, have contributed to philosophy and science in the Middle Ages. It investigates to what extent they influenced one another and to what extent they were influenced by previous Greek commentators. Besides Ibn Bājja's commentary on the Physics, which had up to now only partially been edited, the commentaries of Ibn as-Samḥ, Abū Bišr Mattā, Abū l-Faraj ibn aṭ-ṭayyib and Ibn Rušd are surveyed and discussed. The book also contains an account of an Arabic paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on the Physics, which is of special interest because this commentary was partly lost. A special feature of the book is the edition of the unpublished parts of Ibn Bājja's commentary.

Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107031463

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Aristotle's Physics by Mariska Leunissen Pdf

This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.

Author : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791410838

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Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties by Helen S. Lang Pdf

This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

Author : Tony Roark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497282

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Aristotle on Time by Tony Roark Pdf

Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only non-circular, but also worthy of serious philosophical scrutiny. He shows how Aristotle developed an account of the nature of time that is inspired by Plato while also thoroughly bound up with Aristotle's sophisticated analyses of motion and perception. When Aristotle's view is properly understood, Roark argues, it is immune to devastating objections against the possibility of temporal passage articulated by McTaggart and other 20th-century philosophers. Roark's novel and fascinating interpretation of Aristotle's temporal theory will appeal to those interested in Aristotle, ancient philosophy and the philosophy of time.

Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191530128

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Time for Aristotle by Ursula Coope Pdf

What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Author : David Bostock,Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy David Bostock
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199286867

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Space, Time, Matter, and Form by David Bostock,Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy David Bostock Pdf

Space, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's Physics, four of them published here for the first time. The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as his biology and psychology and the account of change in his De Generatione et Corruptione. The volume's remaining essays examine themes in later books of the Physics, including infinity, place, time, and continuity. Bostock argues that Aristotle's views on these topics are of real interest in their own right, independent of his notions of substance, form, and matter; they also raise some pressing problems of interpretation, which these essays seek to resolve.

Author : Ido Yavetz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319212630

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Bodies and Media by Ido Yavetz Pdf

This book presents a recasting of Aristotle’s theory of spatial displacement of inanimate objects. Aristotle’s claim that projectiles are actively carried by the media through which they move (such as air or water) is well known and has drawn the attention of commentators from ancient to modern times. What is lacking, however, is a systematic investigation of the consequences of his suggestion that the medium always acts as the direct instrument of locomotion, be it natural or forced, while original movers (e.g. stone throwers, catapults, bowstrings) act indirectly by impressing moving force into the medium. Filling this gap and guided by discussions in Aristotle’s Physics and On the Heavens, the present volume shows that Aristotle’s active medium enables his theory - in which force is proportional to speed - to account for a large class of phenomena that Newtonian dynamics - in which force is proportional to acceleration - accounts for through the concept of inertia. By applying Aristotle’s medium dynamics to projectile flight and to collisions that involve reversal of motion, the book provides detailed examples of the efficacy and coherence that the active medium gives to Aristotle’s discussions. The book is directed primarily to historians of ancient, medieval, and early modern science, to philosophers of science and to students of Aristotle’s natural philosophy.

Author : Tony Rothman
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781596877566

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Instant Physics by Tony Rothman Pdf

For all of you who break out in a sweat at the thought of thermodynamics, or freeze up at the mention of quantum mechanics, like a bolt from the blue, INSTANT PHYSICS will zap you through the fascinating history of our most basic, yet baffling, science. From the thousand-year search for proof of the existence of the ever-elusive atom to the varied and heated arguments behind the big bang theory, INSTANT PHYSICS answers all the heavy questions with a light touch. You'll learn:* How the Greek philosophers used the sledgehammer of mathematics to break apart the mysteries of the physical universe.* Why gravity is a "romantic" force.* How to tell the difference between a gluon, a meson, and a quark, even if you can't see them.INSTANT PHYSICS is crammed with special features, including chapter summaries, who's who lists, biographical and historical tidbits, and a host of illustrations, photos, equations, diagrams, and drawings.

Author : William Chareton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:989231348

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Aristotle's Physics : books I and II by William Chareton Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0192835866

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Physics by Aristotle Pdf

For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciencesThis book begins with an analysis of change, which introduces us to Aristotle's central concepts of matter and form, before moving on to an account of explanation in the sciences and a defence of teleological explanation. Aristotle then turns to detailed, important, and often ingenious discussionsof notions such as infinity, place, void, time, and conintuity. He ends with an argument designed to show that the changes we experience in the world demand as their cause a single unchanging cause of all change, namely God.This is the first complete translation of Physics into English since 1930. It presents Aristotle's thought accurately, while at the same time simplifying and expanding the often crabbed and elliptical style of the original, so that it is very much easier to read. A lucid introduction and extensivenotes explain the general structure of each section of the book and shed light on particular problems.