Table of Contents:
  • Historical introduction
  • Presocratic legacies
  • Topics of Plato's later philosophy
  • Aristotle's physics
  • Introductory remarks
  • Genesis
  • Physis
  • Matter and place
  • Time
  • The infinite
  • The doctrine of movement
  • The unmoved mover
  • The cosmology of the books on the heaven
  • Natural movement as first assumptions
  • Natural places and the eternal cosmos
  • Heavy and light
  • The first body
  • The subjects of book II
  • The nature and formation of physical objects
  • The philosophical status of genesis
  • The derivation of the elements
  • Acting and suffering
  • Mixture
  • The moving cause of all genesis
  • Meterology
  • Place and purpose of the meteorologica.