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August Immanuel Bekker. Bekker numbering or Bekker pagination is the standard form of citation to the works of Aristotle.It is based on the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle (1831–1837) and takes its name from the editor of that edition, the classical philologist August Immanuel Bekker (1785–1871); because the academy was ...
Surviving fragments of the many lost works of Aristotle were included in the fifth volume of Bekker's edition, edited by Valentin Rose. These are not cited by Bekker numbers, however, but according to fragment numbers. Rose's first edition of the fragments of Aristotle was Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus (1863). As the title suggests, Rose ...
Bekker number: Work Latin name Metaphysics 980a Metaphysics: Metaphysica: Ethics and politics 1094a Nicomachean Ethics: Ethica Nicomachea: 1181a Great Ethics* Magna Moralia * 1214a Eudemian Ethics: Ethica Eudemia: 1249a [On Virtues and Vices] [De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus] 1252a Politics: Politica: 1343a Economics* Oeconomica * Rhetoric and ...
Bekker confined himself entirely to manuscript investigations and textual criticism; he contributed little to the extension of other types of scholarship. [1] Bekker numbers have become the standard way of referring to the works of Aristotle and the Corpus Aristotelicum.
The image is not the original publication of Bekker's recension from which the standard Bekker numbers are derived. Indeed, Bekker numbers do not appear at all, though the recension is Bekker's, and the book and chapter numbers derived from the age of manuscripts (not known when) are used. For Bekker's arrangement, see the 1831 edition ...
Books and chapters are referred to with Roman and Arabic numerals respectively, along with corresponding Bekker numbers. For example, "NE II.2, 1103b1" means "Nicomachean Ethics, book II, chapter 2, Bekker page 1103, column b, line number 1". Chapter divisions, and the number of chapters in a book, are somewhat arbitrary and sometimes different ...
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