On the Heavens by Aristotle (Thomas Taylor Series Vol.25)

Volume XXV of the Thomas Taylor SeriesVolume VII of the Thomas Taylor Aristotle This volume contains: Aristotle's On the Heavens (De Caelo), with most of the Commentary of Simplicius. Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption. Aristotle's On Meteors (Meteorology), with selections from the Commentary of Olympiodorus. About the Thomas Taylor AristotleThomas Taylor's translations of the complete works of Aristotle—the first complete set of such translations to be produced in English—have two great advantages for the modern reader: First, Taylor works from within the Platonic tradition, of which he himself was a convinced follower. While other translations also have their own scholarly and literary merits, they often lack the depth of Taylor’s, because the subtle truths embedded in Platonic writings are only understood after careful and profound meditation. Like the great writers of the ancient Neoplatonic schools, Taylor saw Aristotle as a Platonist, and so he translated and explained Ar