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Quotation from On the Heavens by Aristotle
“we have been thinking of the stars as mere bodies, and as units with a serial order indeed but entirely inanimate; but should rather conceive them as enjoying life and action”
On the Heavens, Book II, Part 12, trans. J. L. Stocks (1922)
Aristotle's tentative solution to the puzzle of why the planets move in more complex ways than the outermost sphere.
Citation: "we have been thinking of the stars as mere bodies, and as units with a serial order indeed but entirely inanimate; but should rather conceive them as enjoying life and action" — Aristotle, On the Heavens, Book II, Part 12, trans. J. L. Stocks (1922). (id aristotle-on-the-heavens-q7)
