Aristotle's Physics is the only complete and coherent book we have from the ancient world in which a thinker
of the first rank seeks to say something about nature as a whole. For centuries, Aristotle's inquiry into the causes
and conditions of motion and rest dominated science and philosophy. To understand the intellectual assumptions
of a powerful world view-and the roots of the Scientific Revolution-reading Aristotle is critical. Yet existing
translations of Aristotle's Physics have made it difficult to understand either Aristotle's originality or the
lasting value of his work.
In this volume in the Masterworks of Discovery series, Joe Sachs provides a new plain-spoken English translation
of all of Aristotle's classic treatise and accompanies it with a long interpretive introduction, a running explication
of the text, and a helpful glossary. He succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the aim of this innovative series: to
give the general reader the tools to read and understand a masterwork of scientific discovery.