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Important new volume is an invitation to reassess the impact and influence of Aristotle LEWES .- Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle’s works comprise a veritable encyclopaedia of philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics. Aristotle’s astonishing range and depth made him indisputably the most important intellectual figure in the Western tradition before the modern age. Although he has been studied continuously for more than two-thousand years, his individual works were dispersed, lost, recovered, and very gradually reunited. The physical transmission of the Aristotelian corpus was a long, complicated, uncoordinated process not one chain of transmission but many. From the Roman Empire, through the mediation of Arab and Jewish scholars, to the western Middle Ages and scholasticism and up to the cusp of modernity in the late 15th century, Aristotle’s works we

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