Simplicius

There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the <i>Physics </i>of Aristotle once regarded as merely an undeveloped forerunner to Book 8. The debate surrounding the importance of the text is not new to modern scholarship: for example in the fourth century BC Eudemus the Peripatetic philosopher associate of Aristotle left it out of his treatment of the <i>Physics</i>. Now for the first time Charles Hagen's lucid translation gives the English reader access to Simplicius' commentary on Book 7 an indispensable tool for understanding the text. Its particular interest lies in its explanation of how the chapters of Book 7 fit together and its reference to a more extensive second version of Aristotle's text than the one which survives today.