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Article: The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements.(Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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LANG, Helen S. The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 324 pp. Cloth, $64.95--This is a wonderful book. It is, in my opinion, the best book on Aristotle's treatment of the physical world to appear in recent years. Still, this book is not one that can be read through on a Sunday afternoon. It resembles a text of Aristotle in the compactness of argument, though not, I am happy to report, in clarity. Like a guide raised in the wild, Lang leads us through a large sector of the forest of arguments in the Physics and De Caelo. This analogy brings me to the following point: Lang's perspective on ...