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Title Cosmic order and divine power : Pseudo-Aristotle, On the cosmos / introduction, text, translation and interpretative essays by Johan C. Thom [and 7 others] ; edited by Johan C. Thom
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrations
Series Sapere ; Band XXIII
Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 23.
Contents Text, translation and notes / Johan C. Thom -- Didactic purpose and discursive strategies in On the cosmos / Clive Chandler -- The geography of De mundo / Renate Burri -- The cosmotheology of De mundo / Johan C. Thom -- The reception of On the cosmos in ancient pagan philosophy / Andrew Smith -- The concepts of __ and __ in De mundo and their parallels in Hellenistic-Jewish and Christian texts / Anna Tzvetkova-Glaser -- Syriac and Arabic transmission of On the cosmos / Hidemi Takahashi -- Possible echoes of De mundo in the Arabic-Islamic world : Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thinkers / Hans Daiber -- Disputes over the authorship of De mundo between humanism and Altertumswissenschaft / Jill Kraye
Summary The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity
Notes Attribution of De mundo to Aristotle is disputed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and indexes
Notes Includes text of De mundo (pages 20-57) in original Greek with English translation on facing pages
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Subject Aristotle. De mundo.
SUBJECT De mundo (Aristotle) fast
Subject Cosmology, Ancient.
Science, Medieval.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Cosmology, Ancient
Science, Medieval
Form Electronic book
Author Thom, Johan Carl, 1954- editor, translator, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.
Aristotle. De mundo.
Aristotle. De mundo. English.
LC no. 2015379489
ISBN 9783161564321
3161564324
9783161528095
3161528093
Other Titles Pseudo-Aristotle, On the cosmos