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Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World Philoponus

Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World By Philoponus

Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World by Philoponus


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Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World Summary

Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World by Philoponus

In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and conceivable as void. Philoponus' denial that velocity in the void would be infinite anticipated Galileo, as did his denial that speed of fall is proportionate to weight, which Galileo greatly developed. In the second document Simplicius attacks a lost treatise of Philoponus which argued for the Christians against the eternity of the world. He exploits Aristotle's concession that the world contains only finite power. Simplicius' presentation of Philoponus' arguments (which may well be tendentious), together with his replies, tell us a good deal about both Philosophers.

About Philoponus

David Furley is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Christian Wildberg is Lecturer in Greek at the Freie Universitat, Berlin

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Textual Emendations TRANSLATION Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Passages Cited Subject Index

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NLS9781780933740
9781780933740
1780933746
Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World by Philoponus
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2014-04-10
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