Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Philosophy
Binding: Vellum
Description: Joannes Grammaticus Philoponus (490-570 CE) Diadochi Duodeviginti Argumenta Procli. The world is eternal. Nicolaus Edoard, Lyon, 1557. Folio, first edition; 13 x 8 1/2 in. Joannes Mahotius translated 295 pages from Greek to Latin; printer's woodcut device to title; bound in complete original vellum, little weathered; title page and next 30 pages stained. missing vellum fragment in the front cover's lower right corner. Latin text .Our author, also known as John the Grammarian, defends Christian creationism in his writings against Athenian Neoplatonism Proclus, arguing against Aristotelian physics. John Philoponus, also called John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria, was a Byzantine Greek philologist, an Aristotelian interpreter, a Christian theologian, and the author of a large body of theological and philosophical writings. He lived from approximately 490 to approximately 570. Alexandria is where he was born. John Philoponus was a contentious writer and innovative thinker who challenged the Aristotelian-Neoplatonic tradition. He questioned technique and ultimately paved the way for empiricism in the natural sciences. Philoponus was a rigorous and occasionally polemical writer. He was among the first to put up a "theory of impetus" over Aristotelian dynamics that was comparable to the idea of inertia as it exists today.
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