ARISTOTLE AND THE EARLIER PERIPATETICS vol.I by Eduard Zeller, B.F.C.Costelloe 1897

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nected works On the Heavens and On Growth and
genuine, and these must have belonged to Aristotle's
earlier period. 1
The works on Natural Philosophy form the largest
bulk of all Aristotle's productions. We have first a
series of important
investigations which Aristotle himself
connected together. They deal with the general
basis and conditions of the material universe, of the
earth and the heavenly bodies, of the elements with
their properties and relations, and of meteorological
VOL. I.
ap. Rose, Ar. Ps. 615 ; Fr. Hz.
347) seem to have formed part.
It is referred by Rose to the
hand of Aristocles of Rhodes, a
contemporary of Strato ; but this
seems unlikely : cf . Heitz, V. S.
294. It cannot, however, have
been a genuine work of Aristotle,
anditseems to have contained, not
philosophical inquiries as to the
Godhead.but collections and pro-
phenomena. These are the Physics, 2 the two congravest
doubts. Cf. further, p.
155 sqq.
1
Besides the Books on Philosophy
(p. 55, n. 5, and 57), on the
Good, and on the Ideas (p. 61, n.
1, 62, n. 1), the nepi fix^ 5 was
probably genuine (v. p. 58, n. 1,
fin.). The three books n. rixts
(An. App. 152) and the Nayixhs
were not. The latter is named by
Diog. (i. 1. 8, ii. 45), and was also
evidently used by Plin. (H. iV. bably explanations of myths and
xxx. 1, 2) as Aristotle's, but it is religious usages.—The n. apxvs,
reckoned by An. (191) among from its position in the list of
the Pseudepigrapha,and we know
from Suidas('AvTi