The reception of Aristotle’s On the heavens in late ancient Alexandrian Platonism, with the editio princeps of the newly discovered anonymous scholia of the ff. 180-211 from the Laurentianus 87.20 KU Leuven
Neoplatonic philosophers felt that the unity of Aristotle’s De caelo was a strategic issue, which constrained their different exegetical approaches to Aristotle’s text and criticisms of Plato, but also had a direct impact on their views on the unity and cohesion of the physical system of the world. Conflicting interpretations appear to have reached a climax in late Neoplatonism, with Philoponus’ and Simplicius’ controversy on the nature of ...