{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"237","_score":null,"_source":{"id":237,"authors_free":[{"id":303,"entry_id":237,"agent_type":null,"is_normalised":null,"person_id":16,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Bowen, Alan C.","free_first_name":"Alan C.","free_last_name":"Bowen","norm_person":{"id":16,"first_name":"Bowen C.","last_name":"Bowen","full_name":"Bowen, Alan C. ","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/140052720","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"Simplicius on the Planets and their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy","main_title":{"title":"Simplicius on the Planets and their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy"},"abstract":"Though the digression closing Simplicius\u2019 commentary on Aristotle\u2019s De caelo 2.12 has long been misread as a history of early Greek planetary theory, it is in fact a creative reading of Aristotle to maintain the authority of the De caelo as a sacred text in Late Platonism and to refute the polemic mounted by the Christian, John Philoponus. This book shows that the critical question forced on Simplicius was whether his school\u2019s acceptance of Ptolemy\u2019s planetary hypotheses entailed a rejection of Aristotle\u2019s argument that the heavens are made of a special matter that moves by nature in a circle about the center of the cosmos and, thus, a repudiation of the thesis that the cosmos is uncreated and everlasting.","btype":1,"date":"2013","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/x8pS07PCJvC1pg0","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":16,"full_name":"Bowen, Alan C. ","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":{"id":237,"pubplace":"Leiden","publisher":"Brill","series":"Philosophia Antiqua","volume":"133","edition_no":"","valid_from":null,"valid_until":null},"booksection":null,"article":null},"sort":["Simplicius on the Planets and their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy"]}