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Quotation from On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle

“Thus we see that coming-to-be occurs as the sun approaches and decay as it retreats”

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On Generation and Corruption, Book II, ch. 10, trans. H. H. Joachim (1922)

The observational support for the theory that the sun's motion on the inclined circle causes generation and destruction.

Citation: "Thus we see that coming-to-be occurs as the sun approaches and decay as it retreats" — Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, Book II, ch. 10, trans. H. H. Joachim (1922). (id aristotle-on-generation-and-corruption-q4)

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