On the Heavens
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Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · February 20, 2013
THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be.
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- Who it’s for
- Follow Aristotle as he asks what nature is made of and how its parts divide.
- Genres
- Cosmology, Ancient Philosophy, Astronomy
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, February 20, 2013
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THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be. For of things constituted by nature, some are bodies and magnitudes, some possess body and magnitude, and some are principles of things which possess these.
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Now a continuum is that which is divisible into parts always capable of subdivision, and a body is that which is every way divisible.
Nature in Parts
Follow Aristotle as he asks what nature is made of and how its parts divide.
Come here for
- Ancient thinking about nature, bodies, and motion
- A philosophical look at what makes a continuum divisible
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- A concise, conceptual passage on bodies, magnitudes, and their principles
- An early meeting of philosophy and the study of nature
Where it sits
| Astronomy | 55% |
|---|---|
| Ancient Philosophy | 54% |
| Cosmology | 37% |
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Publisher categories
- History
- Ancient Philosophy
- Astronomy
- Authors
- Aristotle
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- February 20, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
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