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| Reading Certainty: Exegesis and Epistemology on the Threshold of Modernity. Essays Honoring the Scholarship of Susan E. Schreiner Contributor(s): Keen, Ralph (Editor), Palmer, Elizabeth (Editor), Owings, Daniel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004186514 ISBN-13: 9789004186514 Publisher: Brill
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: October 2016 Click for more in this series: Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Science | Physics - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 530.01 |
| Series: Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus |
| Physical Information: 336 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Bilingual |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume offers the first critical edition and English translation of the Book of Physics of Barhebraeus' (d. 1286) magnum opus, Butyrum Sapientiae. Barhebraeus' text is not simply a Syriac translation of Aristotle or Avicenna; it offers some unexpected and un-Aristotelian views on time, motion, and inclination, thus adding various personal twists and turns to the work. For his Book of Physics Barhebraeus drew mainly on Arabic texts by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, among them the as yet unedited al-Mulakhkhaṣ. There are also some remarkable similarities with the late Neo-Platonic philosopher Damascius (6th ct.), especially in Barhebraeus' treatment of time and motion, and also with Lucretius. Thus, the present volume argues, the Book of Physics was based on a variety of sources, which were re-arranged in a unique and very personal manner by Barhebraeus. |
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