Aristotle argues in _On the Heavens_ 1.5-7 that there can be no
infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one
physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no
place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in
favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth,
air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece.
Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot
be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the
commentary in the sixth century AD (here translated into English),
tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected by Strato, the
third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time, he tells us the
different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.
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9781472501110
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2020
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Bloomsbury UK
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Engelsk
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