Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void is written by J.O. Urmson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1472501829 (ISBN 10) and 9781472501820 (ISBN 13).

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8. The Simplicius text, which consists of his comments on Aristotle's treatment of the void in chapters 6-9 of Book 4 of the Physics, comes from Simplicius' huge commentary on Book 4. Simplicius' comments on Aristotle's treatment of place and time have been translated by J. O. Urmson in two earlier volumes of this series.