автор: Professor J. O. Urmson

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus ( c. 245 CE–early 320s) on the Pythagoreans. He thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics …

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus ( c. 245 CE–early 320s) on the Pythagoreans. He thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics …

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from …

The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle»s On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider …

Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle»s Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle»s works. Those on the …

This companion to J. O. Urmson»s translation in the same series of Simplicius» Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius» commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle»s …

Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress …

Aristotle»s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change …