Simplicius on the planets and their motions : in defense of a heresy /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Series: | Philosophia antiqua ;
v. 133. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
