In"Aristotle s Empiricism," Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle s natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored and shows that much of Aristotle s analysis of natural movement is influenced by the logic and concepts of mathematical mechanics that emerged from late Pythagorean thought. De Groot draws upon the pseudo-Aristotelian" Physical Problems" XVI to reconstruct the context of mechanics in Aristotle s time and to trace the development of kinematic thinking from Archytas to the Aristotelian "Mechanics." She shows the influence of kinematic thinking on Aristotle s...
In"Aristotle s Empiricism," Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle s natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored and shows th...
Originally published in 1991. Philoponus long commentary on Aristotle s definition of light sets up the major concerns, both in optics and theory of light, that is discussed here. Light was of special interest in Neoplatonism because of its being something incorporeal in the world of natural bodies and therefore had a special role in the philosophical analysis of the interpenetration of bodies and also as a paradigm for the soul-body problem. The material investigated in this book contains much about the physiology of vision as well as the propagation of light. Several chapters investigate...
Originally published in 1991. Philoponus long commentary on Aristotle s definition of light sets up the major concerns, both in optics and theory o...
