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Title	:	Physics
Author	:	Aristotle
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	March 28th 1996 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published -340)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Science. Classics. Nonfiction. Physics

Physics Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

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For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since 1930, Aristotle's thought is presented accurately, with a lucid introduction and extensive notes to explain the general structure of each section of the book, and shed light on particular problems. It simplifies and expands the style of the original, making for easier reading and better comprehension.

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Original Title:	Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις
ISBN:	0192823108 (ISBN13: 9780192823106)
Edition Language:	English

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It's a really interesting but sometimes confusing book.Imagine you travel to another dimension and then someone gives you a book that tells you how everything works. It was something like that. All Aristotle's postulates make sense in a way but you know that isn't so but it makes sense. To understand it you have to forget everything you know about movement and the elements and time and gravity. Remember, there wasn't the concept of gravity back then. It's also very interesting to see the weight

The Physics is refreshing because Aristotle is interested in the world as humans experience it--not like Plato, who sees the real world as the world of the forms, or the naturalists, who see the real world as nothing but matter in motion. Neither of these two worlds are accessible to us. They do not account for our everyday experience. Aristotle, however, approaches the world through human eyes, and because of that he is in many respects the easiest ancient philosopher to understand. Aristotle

Finally finished this book after putting it on hold numerous times throughout my 3 month reading session. I have found that the most accurate way to describe this book to my peers is that it is interesting, but not entertaining (with the exception of some passages). The main reasoning behind this is that Aristotle continuously describes the same ideas over and over. (Change is continuous, there must be a first changer, anything that changes is capable of being changed, ad infinitum). The

Physics is a treatise by Aristotle in which he deals with the study of Nature, or rather, how we should study Nature. This comprises not just physics in the modern sense, but all things in the world - so to use modern phraseology Aristotle views the study of Nature to be the domain of physics, biology, even psychology. To understand the book, it is necessary to situatie Aristotle's treatise in the proper philosophical context. Aristotle was responding to his tutor Plato's conception of

Why can the universe not move within itself, as its components can?A thing is said to be prior when its existence is a prerequisite for the other things to exist, but not vice versa, and there is also priority in time and priority in form. I love Philosophy so much. It blows my mind. I have a grasp of most of it, but the mathematical functions, which is essential to understanding- lose me. I really want to learn some math, but I don't know where to start. I just assume I could buy some textbooks

All of the elegance and beauty of modern physics is noticeably missing in the ancient system. The effort made to understand the world is highly impressive in itself even if Aristotle's system did lead to centuries of misconceptions in the field (and still does today considering the widely-used Kalam Cosmological Argument is based of Aristotelian physics), but compared with light bending around stars, black holes ripping matter apart as it crosses the event horizon, or atoms colliding in a

While I am normally hostile to Hellenism, Ill give Aristotle credit on this point: he was a fairly good communicator. He also set the stage for later scholastic thought (for better or worse). By physics he means things like being, motion, time. Don't think he is talking about the discipline in science today. Like most Greeks, his understanding of science was wrong (to put it mildly). Pascal, among others, refuted him on the nature of the void and vacuum.We do not know a thing until we know its