Abstract

Craemer-Ruegenberg has written a very clear, brief introduction to Aristotle’s Physics. Her work is not meant to be either an original work of scholarship or a detailed commentary on the text. Her intention seems to be to provide an explanation of Aristotle’s terminology and his method and conception of natural science for someone reading Aristotle’s work for the first time. Since she sees quite correctly that the Physics contains Aristotle’s basic concepts for all his writings on nature, whether these be the works on animals or meteorology or De Caelo, inter alia, she is justified in regarding an account of those principles as affording access to his whole impressive system.