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The second book of the Opificio is an explanation of Genesis 1:2–5 and the first day of creation. [11] The third book is about Genesis 1:6–8, concerning the firmament and the second day of creation. Here, he advocates for the sphericity of the Earth to refute the position of Cosmas.
In subsequent writings, Philo calls the Opificio a συνταζξις, or an "ordered composition", a didactic or systematic prose work. His work is also considered to be a commentary on the books of Moses. It is also one of a broader set of works by Philo referred to as the Exposition of the Law. The Exposition was a tripartite project, with ...
Philo of Alexandria (/ ˈ f aɪ l oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Φίλων, romanized: Phílōn; Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, romanized: Yəḏīḏyāh; c. 20 BCE – c. 50 CE), also called Philō Judæus, [a] was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.
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John Philoponus (Greek: / f ɪ ˈ l ɒ p ə n ə s /; Ἰωάννης ὁ Φιλόπονος, Ioánnis o Philóponos; c. 490 – c. 570), also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria, was a Coptic Miaphysite [1] philologist, Aristotelian commentator and Christian theologian from Alexandria, Byzantine Egypt, who authored a number of philosophical treatises and theological works.
Undated, the book contained also a Latin translation by Ranuccio Tettalo. These 127 fables are known as the Collectio Accursiana, the newest of the three recensions that form the Greek Aesopica. The oldest Greek recension is the Collectio Augustana, in 231 fables, that was published only in 1812 by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in Breslau.
Title page David Hume. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779.Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence.
The book was published in 1926, with a revised second edition released in 1933. The work was preceded by a number of pamphlets in the Little Blue Books series of inexpensive worker education pamphlets. [1] [2] They proved so popular they were assembled into a single book and published in hardcover form by Simon & Schuster in 1926. [3]