The physics of The Healing
Subtitle: a parallel English-Arabic text
By: Avicenna ; translated, introduced, and annotated by Jon McGinnis
Contributors: McGinnis, Jon
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Islamic translation series; Islamic translation series
Publisher: Brigham Young University Press; Brigham Young University
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Provo, Utah
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 1168
ISBN-13: 9780842527477
Subjects: [commentaire]; Early works to 1800; Physics
Other titles: Shifāʼ : Samāʻ al-ṭabīʻī
Work titles: Samāʻ al-ṭabīʻī
Description: Avicenna's Physics is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, The Healing. Avicenna's reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as psychology; it sets up many of the problems that take center stage in his Metaphysics; and it provides concrete examples of many of the abstract analytical tools that he would develop later in Logic. While Avicenna's Physics roughly follows the thought of Aristotle's Physics, with its emphasis on natural causes, the nature of motion, and the conditions necessary for motion, the work is hardly derivative. It represents arguably the most brilliant mind of late antiquity grappling with and rethinking the entire tradition of natural philosophy inherited from the Greeks as well as the physical thought of Muslim speculative theologians. As such, Physics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Avicenna's complete philosophical system, the history of science, or the history of ideas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English and Arabic.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Books I & II; title: v. 2. Books III & IV.