Traditional attribution
Mechanical Problems (Mechanica)
Μηχανικά
The oldest surviving treatise on mechanics. In the form of problems, it explains the lever, the balance, the pulley, the wedge and the oar from the properties of the circle, and asks why small forces can move great weights. It was much read in the Renaissance and by Galileo.
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Authorship note
Spurious: transmitted in the Aristotelian corpus but written by other authors, generally later Peripatetics. Probably by an early Peripatetic, perhaps from the circle of Strato of Lampsacus. Bekker 847a–858b.
Editions and translations
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English
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
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 307), 1936
Translation: W. S. Hett
ISBN 9780674993389
Reimpresión registrada en 1963.
Griego antiguo
Aristotle
Aristotelis Opera, vol. II (ed. Immanuel Bekker)
The Conscious LibraryAristotelis 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)
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 277), 2000
ISBN 8424922654
Other works by Aristotle
- Categories
- On Interpretation (De interpretatione)
- Prior Analytics
- Posterior Analytics
- Topics
- Sophistical Refutations
- Physics
- On the Heavens (De caelo)
- On Generation and Corruption
- Meteorology (Meteorologica)
- On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- On the Soul (De anima)
- On Sense and the Sensible
- On Memory and Recollection
- On Sleep and Waking
- On Dreams
- On Divination in Sleep
- On Length and Shortness of Life
- On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death
- On Respiration
- On Breath (De spiritu)
- History of Animals (Historia animalium)
- Parts of Animals
- Movement of Animals (De motu animalium)
- Progression of Animals (De incessu animalium)
- Generation of Animals
- On Colours (De coloribus)
- On Things Heard (De audibilibus)
- Physiognomics (Physiognomonica)
- On Plants (De plantis)
- On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus)
- Problems (Problemata)
- On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus)
- Situations and Names of Winds (Ventorum situs)
- On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Magna Moralia
- Eudemian Ethics
- On Virtues and Vices
- Politics
- Economics (Oeconomica)
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric to Alexander (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- Poetics
- Constitution of the Athenians (Athenaion Politeia) · 328
- Protrepticus (Exhortation to Philosophy) · 350
- On Philosophy
- Eudemus, or On the Soul
- Gryllus, or On Rhetoric · 360
- On Ideas
- On the Good
- On Poets
- Homeric Problems
- Constitutions of 158 Cities
- List of Pythian Victors · 335
- Didascaliae (Records of Dramatic Productions)
- On Justice
- On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists
- Hymn to Virtue (to Hermias) · 341
- Will · 322
- Letters
- Fragments (collections of the lost works)
- Theology of Aristotle · 840
- Book of Causes (Liber de causis) · 850
- Secret of Secrets (Secretum secretorum) · 950
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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