On the Heavens

Name: On the Heavens
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787366565

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: George Easton

Unabridged: 3 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 04/13/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

On the Heavens is a treatise written by Aristotle in which he explores the nature and motion of the celestial bodies. In this work, Aristotle argues that the heavens are eternal, unchanging, and composed of a fifth element called aether. He distinguishes between the sublunary world, which is subject to change and decay, and the celestial realm, which is perfect and immutable. On the Heavens is a significant work in the history of astronomy and natural philosophy, and it had a profound influence on later thinkers such as Ptolemy and Galileo. Read in English, unabridged.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Orhan on April 11, 2021

On the Heavens (350 BCE) is Aristotle's take on "cosmology". Aristotle’s universe is spherical, one, and finite in scale. It is vast in volume and mass but does not stretch to infinity, and no time or space, not even emptiness, exists beyond it. So, there are no multiple universes (the multiverse) i......more

Goodreads review by Roy on October 01, 2019

This is quite a charming little book. In it, one can find the description of an entire way of viewing the natural world. Aristotle moves on from the abstract investigations of the Physics to more concrete questions: Is the earth a sphere or flat? What are the fundamental constituents of matter? Why......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on March 20, 2021

Having finally gotten around to reading something by Aristotle, I can say I enjoyed this book as far as I was able to. However, listening to it on audio was not the best way to go because I struggle to follow what's being said when reading on that medium if the content is particularly abstract in na......more