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On the Heavens (De caelo) — Aristotle

Written work

On the Heavens (De caelo)

Περὶ οὐρανοῦ

Busto de Aristóteles (Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Altemps)
byAristotle

Aristotelian cosmology. The universe is one, finite, spherical and eternal; the heavenly bodies are made of a fifth element, aether, whose natural motion is circular, while the four sublunary elements move in straight lines upwards or downwards. It defends the sphericity of the Earth with observational arguments — the shadow in lunar eclipses, the change of visible stars when travelling — and its motionless position at the centre. Books III and IV deal with the elements, the heavy and the light.

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Authorship note

A school treatise of the Aristotelian corpus, regarded as authentic. Like the other surviving treatises, it consists of Aristotle's own teaching materials rather than books meant for the public; the arrangement and titles largely derive from Andronicus of Rhodes's edition (first century BCE). Four books. Bekker 268a–313b.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation — Aristotle

    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation

    Princeton University Press, 1984

    Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)

    ISBN 0691016518

    Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.

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  • On the Heavens — Aristotle

    On the Heavens

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 338), 1939

    Translation: W. K. C. Guthrie

    ISBN 9780674993723

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Griego antiguo

  • Aristotelis Opera, vol. I (ed. Immanuel Bekker)

    G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831

    Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.

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Other works by Aristotle

Sources

  • Bekker, Immanuel (ed.). Aristotelis Opera, edidit Academia Regia Borussica. 5 vols. Berlín: G. Reimer, 1831–1870 (vols. I–II, texto griego, 1831).

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