Philosophy 167: Class 1 - Part 6 - Accounts of the Planetary Inequalities: Aristotle's Principles of Celestial Motion.
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
2014-09-02
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Synopsis: This video reviews Aristotle's concept of the celestial run and introduces us to Ptolemy and Apollonius and other important thinkers.
Opening line: "Aristotle has a separate work called On the Heavens, De Caelo, in which he doesn't so much talk about Eudoxus' model as he backs off and spends some time doing essentially philosophic reasoning about what has to be true of the ... read morecelestial run."