Falcon, Andrea. Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity.(Book review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20060901
Author:Dougherty, Jude P.

FALCON, Andrea. Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii + 139 pp. Cloth, $75.00--This remarkable little book provides a clear introduction to Aristotle's philosophy of science and is one that could be used in the classroom at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. As Falcon explains, the natural world for Aristotle consists of two domains, the sublunary world of terrestrial experience and the celestial world. The natural world possesses sufficient unity to be the object of a single general science, yet ...

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