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Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN 13: 9780486813516
Condition: Brandnew
Binding: paperback
Pages: 240
Dimensons: 203 x 127 x 15.24 | 181.44 (gram)
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Written in the fourth century BCE by Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, Physics set out to define the principles and causes of change, movement, and motion. For 2,000 years ― until discoveries by Galileo, Newton, and other scientists ― this treatise was the primary source for explanations of falling rocks, rising flames, the circulation of air, and other physical phenomena.Modern readers are required to bring a keen sense of criticism to these writings. Although Aristotle incorporated some degree of experience and observation in his thinking, the root of his reasoning lies in the philosophical approach. The brilliance of the philosopher's mind and his articulate manner of expression, together with the fact that he was among the first to undertake an intellectually rigorous investigation of nature's basic properties, contribute to the historic value of this book. It remains a foundational work of modern science and philosophy and a key to understanding the work of subsequent theorists and scholars.
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Student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle (384–322 BCE) is a giant of Greek philosophy. He made significant contributions to a remarkable range of areas, including logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance, and theater. The founder of formal logic and a pioneer in zoology, Aristotle influenced every subsequent scientist and philosopher through his development of the scientific method.
Table of Contents:BOOK I1. The scope and method of this book.2. The problem: the number and character of the first principles of nature. 185a 20. Reality is not one in the way that Parmenides and Melissus supposed.3. Refutation of their arguments.4. Statement and examination of the opinions of the natural philosophers.5. The principles are contraries.6. The principles are two, or three, in number.7. The number and nature of the principles.8. The true opinion removes the difficulty felt by the early philosophers.9. Further reflections on the first principles of nature.BOOK IIA. 1. Nature and the natural.B. 2. Distinction of the natural philosopher from the mathematician and the metaphysician.C. The conditions of change. 3. The essential conditions. 4. The opinions of others about chance and spontaneity. 5. Do chance and spontaneity exist? What is chance and what are its characteristics? 6. Distinction between chance and spontaneity, and between both and the essential conditions of change.D. Proof in natural philosophy. 7. The physicist demonstrates by means of the four conditions of change. 8. Does nature act for an end? 9. The sense in which necessity is present in natural things.BOOK IIIA. Motion. 1,
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