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Many have heard of Aristotle's First Unmoved Mover, the one that moves all things without being moved. Very few, however, have managed to capture the ultimate meaning of that entity. Explaining why it is necessary the existence of such a First Unmoved Mover is one of the goals of this book, but, even more, its journey allows us to understand why Aristotle maintained that there are a total of 55 Unmoved Movers, not just one. The key is Aristotelian astronomy, little studied so far in comparison with other aspects of his thought. In this solid piece of research and free philosophical speculation that Botteri & Casazza offer us, the authors' gaze raised to the sky-by means of the naked-eye analysis of celestial movements-leads to the reconstruction of Aristotle's astronomical system, key to understanding his cosmology, his physics, and even his metaphysics. A friendly book, in which the reader celebrates page after page the magnificent explanatory graphics. A book matured, coherent, creative, and intense, which should not be missing in any philosophical library. This book is a revised English translation from the original Spanish publication El sistema astronomico de Aristoteles: Una interpretacion, published by Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires, 2015.

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Author:   Gerardo Botteri ,  Roberto Casazza
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   58
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004525528

ISBN 10:   9004525521
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements for this Translated Edition Acknowledgements to the Original Edition Abbreviations Prologue, by Horacio Gonzalez Introduction 1. The Spherical, Limited, and Hierarchical Cosmology of Aristotle 2. The Spherical Whole in Pre-Socratic Philosophy 3. The Platonic Mandate: Reducing Celestial Phenomena to Circular Motions 4. Eudoxus and Callippus: Planetary Models 4.1 The Heavens and the Compass 4.2 Planetary Trajectories 5. Aristotle's Astronomical System 5.1 The Prime Mover and Unmoved Movers 5.2 Unmoved Movers and Celestial Spheres 5.3 Kinematics and Dynamics 5.4 The Integration of Planetary Spheres 5.5 The First Heaven and Wandering Stars 5.6 Two Celestial Systems 6. Metaphysics, , 8 and the Genetic Interpretation 7. Aristotle's Meta-Astral Theology 8. The Animation of Celestial Bodies 9. Aristotle's System in Perspective Appendices Text Fragments Eudoxus's System: Additional Resources The Grupo de Estudio del Cielo Sources Bibliography Subject index Author index

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Roberto Casazza, MA, PhD (1968) is professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina). He has published articles on several authors and themes of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Medicine, Philosophy and Cosmology. Gerardo Botteri, BPhys, BPsy, MBA (1961) is professor of Physics at the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional (San Nicolas de los Arroyos) and assistant professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. He has been teaching Theoretical Physics over three decades, and conducted research on several topics on the history of Physics and Astronomy.

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