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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Book 3 of Aristotle�s Physics elaborates definitions of change and infinity - concepts central to his theory of nature. In a sixthcentury commentary on Physics 3, Philoponus makes use of Aristotle�s views to argue for a Christian interpretation of infinity. -- In Physics Book 2, Aristotle defines nature as an internal source of change. By elaborating Aristotle�s view of change, Book 3 takes an important step in establishing the claim - to be made in Book 8 - for a divine mover who causes change but in whom no change occurs. Book 3 also introduces Aristotle�s doctrine of infinity as always potential, but never actual and never traversed. Here, as elsewhere, Philoponus turns Aristotle�s arguments about infinity against the pagan Neoplatonist belief in a universe without a beginning. -- Philoponus� commentary strikingly illustrates his own method of establishing philosophical and scientific conclusions through �thought experiments,� as well as ideas that prefigure the doctrine of impetus that was to be so important in medieval philosophy of science. ISBN 9780801430893