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Quotation from Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle
“It is clear, therefore, that the first movent is indivisible and is without parts and without magnitude.”
Posterior Analytics and Physics, Physics VIII.10 (267b), trans. R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (1930)
The last conclusion of the Physics: the source of eternal motion cannot be a body of finite or infinite size.
Citation: "It is clear, therefore, that the first movent is indivisible and is without parts and without magnitude." — Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics, Physics VIII.10 (267b), trans. R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (1930). (id aristotle-posterior-analytics-and-physics-q9)
Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.
