Aristotle De generatione et corruptione 2

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De generatione et corruptione. Aristotle. ed. E. S. Forster. United States. 2017.

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De generatione et corruptione (Greek) (Aristotle. On Sophistical Refutations, On Coming to be and Passing Away, On the Cosmos. Forster, Edward Seymour, editor. London, Cambridge: William Heinmann Ltd., Harvard University Press, 1955.)

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De generatione et corruptione First1KGreek (Aristotle. Aristoteles de coelo et de generatione et corruptione. Prantl, Carl von, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1881.) — 2 focus

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De generatione et corruptione

1. 328 b 26
2. 329 a
3. ¹ πῶς καὶ τίνος J¹Db: τίνος καὶ πῶς EJ²: καὶ τίνος καὶ πῶς HL.
4. 329 a
5. ¹ αἰσθητῆς HJ: αἰσθητόν E: τὸ αἰσθητόν F: αἰσθητὸν ὄν L.
6. a Plato, Timaeus 51 A.
7. b Ibid. 49 D—50 c.
8. c Ibid. 53 c ff.
9. d Ibid. 49 A.
10. e Phys. i. 6 and 7.
11. 329 a
12. 329 b
13. 329 b
14. 330 a
15. 330 a
16. ᵃ See 329 b 30 ff.
17. 330 a.
18. 330 b
19. ᵃ i.e. are mathematically possible.
20. 330 b
21. 331 a
22. It is doubtful what is meant here. The commentator Philoponos suggests that it was a collection of otherwise unpublished doctrines of Plato and thinks that Aristotle is referring to a theory of Plato that there was “the great” and “the small” and a third ἀρχή, which was a mixture of these and served as matter; but there is nothing to support this theory. H. H. Joachim takes “the Divisions” to mean the
23. 331 a
24. a De Caelo 304 b 23 ff.
25. 331 a
26. 331 a
27. a σύμβολα was originally used of two pieces of wood or bone broken away from one another and kept by the two parties to a contract as a means of identification.
28. 331 b
29. ᵃ i.e. those which pass into one another by the “cyclical” process described in 331 b 2 ff.
30. 331 b
31. 332 a
32. a See Phys. 224 a 21 ff.
33. 332 a
34. a Aristotle's πρώτη ὕλη.
35. b i.e. without having some quality attached to it.
36. c This was the doctrine of Anaximander.
37. ᵈ The “boundless” cannot exist without being qualified by a contrary; if it is qualified by a contrary, it is one of the elements.
38. e i.e. there can be no simple bodies but Earth, Air, Fire and Water. f Timaeus 54 B-D. g 331 a 12 ff.
39. h See 331 a 23 ff. and note.
40. 332 b
41. ¹ ἐκ τῶνδε δῆλον add. Joachim.
42. a Bk. II. chs. 2 and 3.
43. 332 b
44. 333 a
45. 333 a
46. ᵃ Fr. 17 line 27 (Diels).
47. ᵇ i.e. if one element is as hot as another is white, they have “by analogy” the same amount, one of heat, the other of whiteness.
48. 333 a
49. 333 b
50. ¹ ἴσως: ἴσον codd.
51. 2 ὁμοίως E: ὅμοιον FHL.
52. ³ δέμας H: γένος ΕFL.
53. 4 καθὰ EHL: καθάπερ F.
54. ᵃ Empedocles, fr. 37 (Diels).
55. 333 b
56. 334 a
57. ¹ κάτω EH: ἄνω FL.
58. ᵃ Although it is entitled περὶ Φύσεως.
59. b i.e. natural motion.
60. 334 a
61. ¹ Fr. ἐστι EHJ : ἔστιν F : εἰ δ᾿ ἔστι.
62. a Fr. 53 (Diels).
63. ᵇ Fr. 54 (Diels).
64. 334 a
65. 334 b
66. 334b b
67. a It is difficult to see any meaning in th words and they should perhaps be omitted.
68. ᵇ i.e. the case where one contrary destroys the other, (ines 6, 7).
69. c See 323 b 1 ff., where the law of the reciprocal action-and-passion of contraries is stated.
70. 334b
71. 335 a
72. ᵃ i.e. the Earth as the centre of the universe.
73. ᵇ i.e. because the region in which mixed bodies exist consists mainly of earth.
74. c i.e. cold-dry (Earth) and cold-moist (Water).
75. d i.e. hot-moist (Air) and hot-dry (Fire).
76. 335a
77. ᵃ See 321 b 16 ff.
78. 335 a.
79. 335 b
80. a Plato, Phaedo 96 A—99 c.
81. 335 b
82. 336 a
83. 326 a
84. ¹ οὐ προσθεωροῦσι : οὐ [ρπσιεωρπὸσομ E : οὐ προθεωροῦσιν H : οὐχ ὁρῶσιν FL.
85. a Phys. ii. 3-9.
86. ᵇ See 335 a 32-b 7.
87. c Phys. viii. 7-9.
88. ᵈ i.e. the sun, see below.
89. e Phys. 260 a 26 ff.
90. 336 a
91. 336 b
92. a The revolution of the πρῶτος οὐρανός or outermost sphere which revolveS once every twenty-four hours.
93. ᵇ The annual course of the sun in the ecliptic circle.
94. ᶜ i.e. of the πρῶτος οὐρανός, which also involves the revolution of the concentric spheres.
95. d The inclination of the ecliptic to the equator of the outer-
96. 336 b
97. 337 a
98. ¹ ἡ ante περίοδός omisi.
99. 2 τὰ addidi.
100. ³ ἐνδελεχῆ FH : ἐντελεχῆ E.
101. ᵃ See 318 a 9 ff.
102. ᵇ Metaphysics, passim.
103. 337 a
104. ᵃ Phys. 255 b 31 ff.
105. 337 a
106. 337 b
107. a Phys. 217 b 29 ff.
108. 337 b
109. 337 b
110. 338 a
111. a The argument is as follows : let æ be one of the future members of the series of events, æ's occurrence is contingent on the future occurrence of a still later member of the series, which is itself contingent on a still later member, y. The occurrence of every subsequent member of the infinite series is therefore conditionally, not absolutely, necessary. If æ's occurrence were absolutely necessary, would be the begin-
112. 338 a
113. 338 b
114. ¹ κύκλῳ ὁ ἥλιος F, Bonitz.
115. a Rectilinear movement, proceeding ad infinitum, does
116. 338 b
117. a The sun moves in a circle in the ecliptic, and solar motioin causes the cyclical changes of season, on which depend the vital periods of living things upon the earth.
118. ᵇ And not to be cyclical.
119. c In some cycles the same individual always recurs, in others successive individuals of the same specie.
120. ᵈ As was the doctrine of Empedoeles (ef. 315 a 4 If.).