Ptolemy in Philosophical Context: A Study of the Relationships Between Physics, Mathematics, and Theology
This study situates Ptolemy’s philosophy within the second-century milieu of Middle Platonism and the nascent Aristotelian commentary tradition. It focuses on Ptolemy’s adaptation and application of Aristotle’s tripartite division of theoretical philosophy into the physical, mathematical, and theol...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17758 |