On the Heavens (Loeb Classical Library, No 338) (Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO info@harvardup.co.uk)

by Aristotle

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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of "Peripatetics"), the Lyceum at...

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  • ISBN10 1515033821
  • ISBN13 9781515033820
  • Publish Date 11 July 2015 (first published 31 January 1939)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 144
  • Language English