Kingdom Disciples: Heaven's Representatives on Earth 9780802491190, 0802491197

Kingdom Disciples 9780802412034

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The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture 9780822392507

A collection exploring the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science, culture.

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.7-4.6 9781472552280, 9780715638446

Commenting on the end of Aristotle On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato’s theory o

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3 9781472552228, 9780715639207

This is the first complete translation into a modern language of the first part of the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 2.10-14 9781472552266, 9780715633427

Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the un

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Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.10-12 9781472552211, 9780715632321

In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.3-4 9781472552235, 9780715640630

This is the first English translation of Simplicius “responses to Philoponus” Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the W

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.5-9 9781472552242, 9780715632314

Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be m

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.1-7 9781472552273, 9780715638439

The subject of Aristotle’s On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist be

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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age 0801857481, 9780801857485

This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published li

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