Simplicius on the planets and their motions : in defense of a heresy /

Though the digression closing Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's De caelo 2.12 has long been misread as a history of early Greek planetary theory, it is in fact a creative reading of Aristotle to maintain the authority of the De caelo as a sacred text in Late Platonism and to refute the...

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Main Author: Bowen, Alan C.

Other Authors: Simplicius, of Cilicia.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Ancient Greek

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Philosophia Antiqua 133.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.

Subjects:

Simplicius, > of Cilicia.

Simplicius, > of Cilicia. > Aristotelis De caelo commentaria.

Aristotle. > De caelo.