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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

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520 a| "This volume presents a commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 12 by pseudo-Alexander in a new translation accompanied by explanatory notes, introduction and indexes. Fred D. Miller, Jr. argues that the author of the commentary is in fact not Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle's distant successor in early 3rd century CE Athens and his leading defender and interpreter, but Michael of Ephesus from Constantinople as late as the 12th century CE. Robert Browning had earlier made the case that Michael was enlisted by Princess Anna Comnena in a project to restore and complete the ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle, including those of Alexander; he did so by incorporating available ancient commentaries into commentaries of his own. Metaphysics Book 12 posits a god as the supreme cause of motion in the cosmic system Aristotle had elaborated elsewhere as having the Earth at the centre. The fixed stars are whirled around it on an outer sphere, the sun, moon and recognised planets on interior spheres, but with counteracting spheres to make the motions of each independent of the motions of others and of the fixed stars, thus yielding a total of 55 spheres. Motion is transmitted from a divine unmoved mover through divine moved movers which move the celestial spheres, and on to the perishable realms. Chapters 1 to 5 describe the principles and causes of the perishable substances nearer the centre of the universe, while Chapters 6 to 10 seek to prove the existence and attributes of the celestial substances beyond"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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'Alexander' on Aristotle Metaphysics 12 / translated by Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Author/creator	Michael
Other author	Miller, Fred D., Jr., 1944-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Description	1 online resource
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 12. Commentaries--Early works to 1800. Cosmology--Early works to 1800. Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Portion of title	On Aristotle Metaphysics 12
Variant title	Pseudo-Alexander on Aristotle's Metaphysics XII
Series	Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Abstract	"This volume presents a commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 12 by pseudo-Alexander in a new translation accompanied by explanatory notes, introduction and indexes. Fred D. Miller, Jr. argues that the author of the commentary is in fact not Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle's distant successor in early 3rd century CE Athens and his leading defender and interpreter, but Michael of Ephesus from Constantinople as late as the 12th century CE. Robert Browning had earlier made the case that Michael was enlisted by Princess Anna Comnena in a project to restore and complete the ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle, including those of Alexander; he did so by incorporating available ancient commentaries into commentaries of his own. Metaphysics Book 12 posits a god as the supreme cause of motion in the cosmic system Aristotle had elaborated elsewhere as having the Earth at the centre. The fixed stars are whirled around it on an outer sphere, the sun, moon and recognised planets on interior spheres, but with counteracting spheres to make the motions of each independent of the motions of others and of the fixed stars, thus yielding a total of 55 spheres. Motion is transmitted from a divine unmoved mover through divine moved movers which move the celestial spheres, and on to the perishable realms. Chapters 1 to 5 describe the principles and causes of the perishable substances nearer the centre of the universe, while Chapters 6 to 10 seek to prove the existence and attributes of the celestial substances beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	Translation of a commentary based on versions found in disparate manuscripts originally written in Ancient Greek attributed to a philosopher, accepted to be Michael of Ephesus, here called Ps.- Alexander, and sometimes credited, likely incorrectly, to Alexander of AphrodIsias.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Issued in other form	Print version: Michael, of Ephesus. 'Alexander' on Aristotle Metaphysics 12 London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 9781350179356
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2020049930
ISBN	9781350179370 (EPUB)
ISBN	9781350179363 (ePDF)
ISBN	(HB)

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