It has to be mentioned that Professor Solmsen
refers the reader to some of his essays dealing with physiological problems in
ancient philosophy, especially those in Philosophical review,
lix (1950),
435–468, and American journal
of philosophy, lxxvi (1955),
148–164. To these should now be added
Mus. Helv., xix (1961),
150–167 and
169–197.
2.
A translation like that of Physics,
iii, 4, 204a 1: “whether there is an infinite
magnitude in the physical world” (p. 161, for, seems to me
not only “free”, but indicative of a tendency to minimise the
sensory factors in Aristotle's physics altogether.
