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Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions

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  • 329 pages
  • 12 hours of reading

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The book argues that the digression in Simplicius' In de caelo 2.12 is not a historical account of early Greek planetary theory but a creative effort to demonstrate that accepting Ptolemy's planetary hypotheses does not require rejecting Aristotle's view of an eternal cosmos.

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Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions, Alan C Bowen

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2012
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