Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

50 Lehoux the tips of the fi ngers... But I have not yet told why they were made just so hard and no harder or why they are roun ...

Natural Knowledge in the Classical World 51 tendons, the nerves) are still the same, and on many readings the analysis from natu ...

52 Lehoux [the heart] they fall outward against the surface of the vein itself and permit a free fl ow by opening the orifi ce w ...

Natural Knowledge in the Classical World 53 this could- have- been- otherwise argument, that Galen sees himself as re- sponding ...

54 Lehoux body itself. Nevertheless, because there is a terminus for falling—a bottom toward which heavy bodies move—we need an ...

Natural Knowledge in the Classical World 55 understandable, mind you, but itself capable of reasoning—and therefore alive. There ...

56 Lehoux pirically undergirded theological movement that is largely independent of contemporary religious practice.^44 KNOWING ...

Natural Knowledge in the Classical World 57 J. Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univer- s ...

58 Lehoux See, e.g., Richard England, “Natural Selection, Teleology, and the Logos: From Darwin to the Oxford Neo- Darwinists, ...

59 The medieval Arabic- speaking world had southern Spain, or Andalusia, as its far western border and then stretched across Nor ...

60 McGinnis historical actors viewed themselves and what they thought the differences were. The proponents of falsafa saw themse ...

Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages 61 defi nition of nature as “a certain principle and cause of being moved and being ...

62 McGinnis This strong reliance on Aristotle’s defi nition of nature is also seen among the Baghdad Peripatetics, a group of ph ...

Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages 63 As one might expect, in both his Epitome and Long Commentary on the Physics he ci ...

64 McGinnis theories, however, we must consider certain developments within the Greek scientifi c tradition that were to infl ue ...

Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages 65 totle’s earlier commentators might have thought, Aristotle himself had in fact he ...

66 McGinnis pily criticized Aristotle on points of natural and biological science. Indeed, at least one project among philosophe ...

Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages 67 NATURE IN THE EARLY EASTERN ISLAMIC WORLD The fi rst Arabic philosopher to attemp ...

68 McGinnis of the existence of the heavens and their motions, creating them from nothing at some fi rst moment of time, while t ...

Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages 69 in it as a result of an emanation from nothing other than the Giver of Forms and ...