The Works of Aristotle, Vol. 2: Physica; de Caelo; de Generatione Et Corruptione (Classic Reprint) Paperback -

The translation of the first two books of the P/rysr'cr for this series was originally entrusted to Mr. C. D. Robertson, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and he had, before his untimely death, prepared a draft translation of these books, which was placed at the disposal of Mr. Hardie and freely used by him. The present translation of the first four books is, however, in the main by Mr. Hardie himself. He has received valuable help from Professors Joachim and J. A. Smith, and from Dr. J. C. Smith and Mr. Henry Barker. The last four books were translated by Mr. Gaye, who also died before his time, regretted by all students of Greek philosophy. Where the word I occurs in notes on these books, the writer is Mr. Gaye. To me has fallen the task of securing comparative uniformity - I have not tried to produce complete uniformity - between the two halves of the translation. In this I have been much helped by Mr. George Brown, m.a Lecturer in Logic in the University of Glasgow, who has kindly read the proofs throughout. At the same time I have on the basis of a study of the reported manuscript readings and of the Greek commentators adopted a good many changes of reading in the Greek text and altered the translation to suit them. All divergences from Bekker's text are men tioned in the notes.

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