Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void
By (Author) Professor J.O. Urmson
By (author) Paul Lettinck
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
26th March 2014
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
185
Physical Properties
Paperback
275
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
395g
Description
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 chapters 6-9 of Book 4 of the Physics, comes from Simplicius' huge commentary on Book 4. Simplicius' comments on Aristotle's treatment of place and time have been translated by J. O. Urmson in two earlier volumes of this series.
Author Bio
Dr Paul Lettinck is a member of the Department of Semitic Languages, Free University, Amsterdam. J. O. Urmson is Emeritus Professor of Stanford University, USA and Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK.
