By Robert Arp, Jamie Carlin Watson
ISBN-10: 0071717676
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8 10* Simpl. in de Caelo 34,21-24 + 30-32:
Fr. 11/47: in Gael. 75,16f. and fr. V/102: 190,21f. 62. 4 subdivisions. The whole treatise covers just over 269 folio pages. 63. The length of the contra Proclum is about 160,000 words; the length of the contra Aristotelem may therefore be estimated at 80,000 words. The material assembled here adds up to c. 26,000 words. 64. Further relevant bibliography: Richard Sorabji, Time, Creation and the Continuum: theories in antiquity and the early middle ages (London 1983); id. ), Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science.
1178,2-5. 49. See in Phys. 1129-1182. The passages cited at in Phys. 1326-1336 belong to a separate treatise. 50. See fr. 1/7: in Gael. 32,1. 3. These fragments stem from the fourth book of the contra Aristotelem. For in a small, separate treatise, demonstrating inter alia that an infinite capacity cannot reside in a finite body, which was written not long after the polemic against Aristotle, Philoponus refers back to the fourth book of that work. Fragments of the latter treatise can be found in Simplicius' commentary on the Physics, 1326-1336.
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