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Aristotle, the Physics

"Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 B.C., was a son of a medical doctor Nicomachus and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there 367-347; spent three years at the court of a former pupil Hermeias in Asia Minor and married Pythias a relation of his; after some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander, and had other students. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of Peripatetics), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. Nearly all the works he prepared for publication are lost, the priceless ones extant being lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). I Practical. Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics."--Jacket.

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  • "[Physica. English. Wicksteed]"
  • "Physics"@en
  • "New translation by Robin Waterfield"
  • "Aristotle: The Physics"
  • "Physica"

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  • "Aristotle's foundational work systematically explores the principles and causes of movement and change."
  • ""Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 B.C., was a son of a medical doctor Nicomachus and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there 367-347; spent three years at the court of a former pupil Hermeias in Asia Minor and married Pythias a relation of his; after some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander, and had other students. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of Peripatetics), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. Nearly all the works he prepared for publication are lost, the priceless ones extant being lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). I Practical. Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics."--Jacket."@en
  • ""Rather than being a listing of actual theories of experimental observations on the science of physics, Aristotle's Physics is more an exposition on the theory, methodology and philosophy of science. Central to the theme of the book is Aristotle's argument that the scientist must ready him or herself for a world in motion and change that is inevitable. Of interest to anyone engaged in the sciences, Aristotle's Physics is an interesting discussion on physics and the philosophy of science in general from the perspective of classical antiquity"--Page 4 of cover."@en
  • "Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments."
  • "Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments."@en
  • "This is the first complete translation of Physics into English since 1930. It presents Aristotle's thought accurately, while at the same time simplifying and expanding the often crabbed and elliptical style of the original, making it easier to read."@en

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  • "Didactisch proza (teksten)"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Classical literature"@en
  • "Classical literature"
  • "Early works"
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  • "The Physics. [Vol. 1]"
  • "The Physics (in two volumes)"
  • "Aristotle, the Physics"
  • "Aristotle, the Physics"@en
  • "Aristotle : the Physics"
  • "Aristotle : the Physics"@en
  • "The physics. 1"
  • "The physics in two volumes : [books V-VIII]"
  • "Physics / 2"
  • "The physics. I"
  • "The physics / 2"
  • "Aristotle. 5 : the physics : 2"
  • "Aristotle : the physics"@en
  • "The physics : books I - IV"
  • "The physics : in two volumes"
  • "The physics/ 1"
  • "The physics. Vol. 1"@en
  • "The Physics. [Vol. 2]"
  • "Aristotle. The Physics. With an English translation by Philip H. Wicksteed ... and Francis M. Cornford"@en
  • "Aristotle : in twenty-three volumes. The physics"
  • "The physics. II"
  • "The physics. 2"
  • "The Physics. v. 2"@en
  • "The Physics"
  • "The Physics"@en
  • "Aristoteles, the physics"
  • "Aristotle. 5, The physics : books V-VIII. With an Engl. transl. by Philip H. Wicksteed"
  • "The physics. Vol 2"@en
  • "Physics"@en
  • "Physics"
  • "The physics"@en
  • "The physics"
  • "Physics / 1"
  • "The physics in two volumes : [books I-IV]"
  • "The physics : with an english translation by philip H. Wicksteed and francis M. Cornford"
  • "Physics English & Greek 1929-34"@en

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