Restricted accessBook reviewFirst published online 1988-3
Essay Review: Science,Philosophy and Religion: Philoponus and the Search for Unity in Late Antiquity: Time,Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,Philoponus,and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
AmongR. Sorabji's previous publications is Necessity, cause and blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's theory (London, 1980). It includes a discussion on Necessity and Time.
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LloydG. E. R., Early Greek science: Thales to Aristotle (London, 1970), p. xv.
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International Conference on Philoponus held at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, in 1983, organized by R. Sorabji.
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On page 233 it is stated that this is the oldest extant Greek treatise on the astrolabe: This is indeed true insofar as it refers to the plane astrolabe; there are however extant descriptions of the spherical, armillary astrolabe which are much older, eg. in Ptolemy's Almagest, and Proclus's Outline [Hypotyposis] of the astronomical hypotheses.
