Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions

Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions
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Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9789004227088
ISBN-13 : 9004227083
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Download or read book Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions written by Alan C. Bowen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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