Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6

by David Konstan

Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting.
This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on Book Six. Simplicius, the greatest ancient authority...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780933657
• ISBN13: 9781780933658
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"