@inbook{1feb9f4862b64fcba6c51b9a9ba8dff8,
title = "Theophrastus{\textquoteright} De igne. Orthodoxy, reform and readjustment in the doctrine of elements",
abstract = "Any account of the short Theophrastean treatise On Fire needs to address sensitive issues about the heavenly sphere-whether Theophrastus upholds Aristotle's convictions about aither, a special stuff, which performs the celestial revolutions as its natural motion, the way sublunary elements perform their rectilinear descents and risings-, and then about the status of fire itself in comparison to the other three sublunary elements. Needless to say, the two questions cannot be treated in isolation: proposals about the first query as a principle have direct bearing for the solution of the second difficulty. Accordingly, in the following sections I shall first discuss what conclusions we can draw from the meagre evidence of the introductory chapters of De igne about Theophrastus' assumptions about the make up of the celestial domain, and then in the closing sections of this paper I shall turn to some larger issues about the reforms or readjustments of a Peripatetic theory of elements which this treatise appears to adumbrate or at least to presuppose.",
author = "Bodn{\'a}r, {M. Istv{\'a}n}",
year = "2002",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783515078887",
series = "Die Philosophie der Antike ; 14.",
publisher = "Franz Steiner Verlag",
pages = "75--90",
editor = "William, {W Fortenbaugh} and W{\"o}hrle Georg",
booktitle = "On the Opuscula of Theophrastus",
}