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On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus) — Aristotle

Traditional attribution

On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus)

Περὶ ἀτόμων γραμμῶν

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

It refutes the doctrine, held in the Academy by Xenocrates, that there are indivisible or minimal lines, with geometrical arguments about continuity and the infinite divisibility of magnitudes. It is a valuable witness to the mathematical debates between the Academy and the Lyceum.

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Editions and translations · 4

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Authorship note

Spurious: transmitted in the Aristotelian corpus but written by other authors, generally later Peripatetics. Attributed to Theophrastus or another early member of the Lyceum. Bekker 968a–972b.

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.

  • Minor Works: On Colours. On Things Heard. Physiognomics. On Plants. On Marvellous Things Heard. Mechanical Problems. On Indivisible Lines. Situations and Names of Winds. On Melissus, Xenophanes, Gorgias — Aristotle

    Minor Works: On Colours. On Things Heard. Physiognomics. On Plants. On Marvellous Things Heard. Mechanical Problems. On Indivisible Lines. Situations and Names of Winds. On Melissus, Xenophanes, Gorgias

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 307), 1936

    Translation: W. S. Hett

    ISBN 9780674993389

    Reimpresión registrada en 1963.

Griego antiguo

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

    G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831

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

Español

  • Sobre las líneas indivisibles. Mecánica (con Euclides, Óptica, Catóptrica, Fenómenos) — Aristotle

    Sobre las líneas indivisibles. Mecánica (con Euclides, Óptica, Catóptrica, Fenómenos)

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 277), 2000

    ISBN 8424922654

Other works by Aristotle

Sources

  • Kraye, Jill; Ryan, W. F.; Schmitt, C. B. (eds.). Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The Theology and Other Texts. Londres: The Warburg Institute, 1986.

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