New perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo [electronic resource] / edited by Alan C. Bowen and Christian Wildberg.

ISBN:

9789004189829

9781282949539

Title:

New perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo [electronic resource] / edited by Alan C. Bowen and Christian Wildberg.

Author:

Bowen, Alan C.

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 320 pages).

Series:

Philosophia antiqua, v. 117

General Note:

Papers presented at a series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge and Paris in the late 1990's.

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; From Plato's Timaeus to Aristotle's De caelo: The Case of the Missing World Soul (Thomas K. Johansen); The Possibilities of Being and Not-Being in De caelo 1.11-12 (Sarah Broadie); Two Standards for Inquiry in Aristotle's De caelo (Robert Bolton (Rutgers University)); Natural, Unnatural, and Preternatural Motions: Contrariety and the Argument for the Elements in De caelo 1.2-4 (R.J. Hankinson); Why Does the Earth Move to the Center? An Examination of Some Explanatory Strategies in Aristotle's Cosmology (Mohan Matthen).

Local Note:

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Personal Subject:

Aristotle. De caelo.

Title Subject:

De caelo (Aristotle) (OCoLC)fst01357825

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Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Summary

This volume is the first collection of scholarly articles in any modern language devoted to Aristotle's De caelo . It grew out of series of workshops held at Princeton, Cambridge, and Paris in the late 1990's. Since Aristotle's De caelo had a major influence on cosmological thinking until the time of Galileo and Kepler and helped to shape the way in which Western civilization imagined its natural environment and place at the center of the universe, familiarity with the main doctrines of the De caelo is a prerequisite for an understanding of much of the thought and culture of antiquity and the Middle Ages.