10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBLUNARY»
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sublunary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Transitory and Evanescent Nature of All
Sublunary ...
Being the Substance of Two Discourses Delivered in the Presbyterian Church of
St. Croix; on the Sixth and Thirteenth Days of January 1782, from I Cor. Vii. 31
Hugh Knox. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following discourse hath nothing else to ...
2
Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity Without Uniformity
conceptual resources developed and refined in the study of the sublunary world.
More directly, Aristotle cannot embark on a study of the celestial souls because
no serial relationship exists between the perishable and the celestial souls.
3
Theophrastus of Eresus: Life, writings, various reports, ...
Alexander, reported by Simplicius, reports that in his On Heaven Theophrastus
discussed not only the heavens but also the sublunary region subject to change.
On Heaven was the third book of Theophrastus' Physics; cf. on 137 no. Ic and
176 ...
Theophrastus, William Wall Fortenbaugh, Robert W. Sharples, 1998
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Peter of Auvergne, Questions on Aristotle's De caelo: a ...
Averroes holds that the sublunary bodies are moved with respect to place on
account of the celestial bodies.2" He also argues that what is made seems to be
related to the maker, just as an end is related to what exists for the sake of the
end.
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A Companion to Aristotle
But there is no possible agency whereby a portion of any of the four sublunary
elements, or anything compounded of them, could be introduced into the region
of the spheres, thereby displacing some aithér into the sublunary realm. Every
part ...
Georgios Anagnostopoulos, 2013
6
Philoponus: On Aristotle Meteorology 1.1-3
Philoponus,. 1.2. Aristotle's Theory of Elements In the second chapter, Aristotle
gives a concise summary of his doctrine of elements: there are four sublunary
elements (earth, water, air, fire), produced by primary qualities (hot, cold, moist
and ...
7
Wissen über Grenzen: Arabisches Wissen und lateinisches ...
celestial body, but it resembles sublunary matter only by virtue of some of its
properties: like sublunary matter, the sphere is visible and able to move; but
unlike it, it has no potentiality for any substantial form. The same applies to the
celestial ...
Andreas Speer, Lydia Wegener, 2006
8
A History of Ancient Philosophy II: Plato and Aristotle
The "fifth essence" and the division of the sublunar world and the heavens
Aristotle distinguished sensible realities into two clearly differentiated spheres: on
the one hand the so-called sublunary world and on the other, the superlunary
world ...
Giovanni Reale, John R. Catan, 1990
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Theophrastus On First Principles: (known as His Metaphysics) ...
(b–a) therefore neatly summarize the status of, and hence the problem
about accounting for, the sublunary world, in three stages: (a) Aristotle's theory of
the heavenly circular movement by means of desire for the unmoved mover ...
Théophraste, Dimitri Gutas, Bartolomeo da Messina, 2010
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On the opuscula of Theophrastus: Akten der 3. Tagung der ...
Perhaps we would not face insurmountable difficulties in explaining why we
apply the same name to the the celestial heat and to the different sublunary
phenomena, which is the excess of heat in a substrate resulting in a process
similar to ...
Karl-und-Gertrud-Abel Stiftung. Tagung, William W. Fortenbaugh, Georg Wöhrle, 2002
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBLUNARY»
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sublunary is used in the context of the following news items.
Fountain of Youth
Julie Lovich shows a modestly sized photo diptych titled "Sublunary," composed of two grainy, horizontally ordered black-and-white images related in suggestive ... «The Journal, Jul 15»
Terrorism grave threat to all nations
The wanton killing of innocent humans for attaining personal, political, financial, and other sorts of sublunary attractions injures human conscience, hurting the ... «Mehr News Agency - English Version, Jul 15»
Yigal Ozeri: "A Creator of New Things and an Imitator of Nature …
... and as the contemplation of a supernatural degree of perfection that could not be perceived by the eye because it was not fully realized in the sublunary world. «Huffington Post, May 15»
Popular Prostate Cancer Cure Gets More Attention
... Soul of the spheres which is propagated in all the bodies existing in the sublunary region, beginning from the sphere of the ether until the center of the world. «Onislam.net, Feb 15»
"No Ko Fio" Band: Marking Time To Paradise
Our slow pace of development incriminates us. But then again, our dreams are nothing sidereal—sublunary at best. A trenchant question may be apropos: When ... «allghananews.com, Jan 15»
"One of the merits of Christianity at its best is that ..."
The existential equality before God gives way to a demand for sublunary equality in all respects: an inflammatory demand that in practice can never be satisfied ... «Catholic World Report, Dec 14»
English is sitting up and taking nourishment
... and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.". «Baltimore Sun, Sep 14»
Journey's End?
... “death travelers,” never felt comfortable trying to convey to noncombatants what it was like to undergo something so foreign to ordinary, sublunary experience. «The Weekly Standard, Sep 14»
My Carcass and Myself
I know it partakes of the comic—necessarily: the conventions of genre are not shared by the true state of sublunary nature—but it is not funny. Slopen is a scholar ... «The New York Review of Books, Apr 14»
From the archive, 7 April 1941: The eating habits of poet Shelley …
“He took no thought,” says a biographer, “of sublunary matters”: Dinner seems to have come less by forethought than by the operation of divine chance; and ... «The Guardian, Apr 14»
