Aristotle's Meteorology and Its Reception in the Arab World: With an Edition and Translation of Ibn Suwar's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena and Ibn ... (Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, V. 10) [Library Binding]

Paul Lettinck (Author), Abu Al-Khayr Al-Hasan Ibn Suwar Ibn Al-Khammar (Author), Avempace (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1999 | ISBN-10: 9004109331 | ISBN-13: 978-9004109339

An account of what Arabic scholars have written, either as commentators or as more independent authors, on the subjects treated in Aristotle's "Meteorology," this work investigates how they were influenced by one another and by previous Greek commentators. For each subject a survey is given of the content of the Greek commentaries (by Alexander, Philoponus and Olympiodorus) as well as of a later treatise, ascribed to Olympiodorus and extant only in Arabic. Then, the Arabic version of Ibn al-Bitr?q is investigated; it was one of the sources used by the Arabic writers which are discussed after that: al-Kind?, Ibn S?n? and later scholars who were inspired by him, Ibn B?jja and Ibn Rusd. Two Arabic treatises on subjects from the "Meteorology" are edited and translated.

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'"The book as a whole is a piece of impressive scholarship, a valuable item in the series Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus.'
Keimpe Algra, "Phronesis, 2001.

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Text: English, Arabic

Product Details

• Library Binding: 505 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004109331
• ISBN-13: 978-9004109339
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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