Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World

by John Philoponus

In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and conceivable as void. Philoponus' denial that velocity in the void would be infinite anticipated Galileo, as did his denial that speed of fall is proportionate to weight, which Galileo greatly developed.

In the second document Simplicius attacks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780933746
• ISBN13: 9781780933740
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"