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The Heavenly Sphere (Chapter 2, 391b9-392a31)

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

The text offers a close commentary of the second chapter of the Pseudo-Aristotelian treatise De mundo. Following the main part of this chapter, it focuses on the heavens, describing their shape, arrangement and material composition.

The bulk of the chapter deals with the structure of supralunary realm and the issue of the Aristotelian aether.