TY - BOOK ID - 25197971 TI - On Aristotle On the heavens 1.2-3 AU - Simplicius AU - Mueller, Ian PY - 2014 SN - 9780715639207 9781472557919 1472557913 071563920X PB - London : Bloomsbury, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Aristotle KW - Aristotle. De caelo. KW - Astronomy, Ancient. KW - Cosmology, Ancient. KW - Physics KW - Aristotle. KW - Astronomy, Greek KW - Cosmology KW - Early works to 1800. KW - Cosmologie antique KW - Astronomie antique KW - Mécanique céleste KW - Aristote, KW - Cosmologie antique. KW - Astronomie antique. KW - Mécanique céleste. KW - Aristote UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25197971 AB - One of the arguments in Aristotle's On the Heavens propounds that the world neither came to be nor will perish. This volume contains the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on the first part of this this important work. The commentary is notable and unusual because Simplicius includes in his discussion lengthy representations of the Christian John Philoponus' criticisms of Aristotle along with his own, frequently sarcastic, responses. This is the first complete translation into a modern language of Simplicius' commentary, and is accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensi. ER -