Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions

Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions PDF Author: Alan C. Bowen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004227083
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
The book contends that the digression ending Simplicius’ In de caelo 2.12 is not a proper history of early Greek planetary theory, but a creative atempt to show that to accept Ptolemy’s planetary hypotheses one need not repudiate Aristotle’s argument that the cosmos is eternal.