PhysicsOxford University Press, 1999 - 301 من الصفحات For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since 1930, Aristotle's thought is presented accurately, with a lucid introduction and extensive notes to explain the general structure of each section of the book, and shed light on particular problems. It simplifies and expands the style of the original, making for easier reading and better comprehension. |
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Introduction | vii |
Select Bibliography | lxxiv |
THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURE | 9 |
Other views of earlier thinkers | 16 |
There are either two principles or three but | 22 |
This view removes the difficulties felt by earlier | 28 |
The scope of natural science | 36 |
Is chance also a cause? Some opinions on this | 42 |
There are things which are sometimes changing | 192 |
There must always be a first agent of change | 200 |
There is a first agent of change which is eternal | 207 |
Only circular movement can be continuous | 216 |
Circular movement is the primary kind | 224 |
Explanatory Notes | 232 |
36 | 237 |
Textual Notes | 300 |
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actually affected agent of change already alteration Anaxagoras Anaximander animal argued argument Aristotle means Aristotle's body Book bronze cause change cause movement cease to exist chance change of place changing object Chapter circular movement claim clear coming contains continuous definition Democritus distance earlier Empedocles end-point equal eternal everything that changes example explain fact finite follows goes happens Heraclitus impossible indivisible infinite magnitude infinite number infinite power infinite regress infinite series infinitely divisible infinity instance involved kind of change limit matter Melissus motion mover moving object natural scientists obviously opposite pale pallor Parmenides perceptible Plato Polyclitus possible potentially premiss primary principle process of change Pythagoreans quantity reason rest self-changer sense separate simultaneously single specifically standstill starting-point straight line stretch substance suppose T. L. Heath thinking Timaeus tion traverse unchanging undergoing underlying thing variation void whereas whole Zeno's Paradoxes