Aristotle · Cael.

On the Heavens

Aristotle on the cosmos, the elements, and the eternity of the heavens, in four books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Moraux (Budé, 1965)) side by side with an English translation (J. L. Stocks) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 4 books, 40 chapters.

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• Stocks Greek & English · J. L. Stocks (Oxford, 1922)

Books

• Book I 12 chapters · 268a1–283b22
• Book II 14 chapters · 283b26–298a20
• Book III 8 chapters · 298a24–307b24
• Book IV 6 chapters · 307b28–313b23

Greek text & translations

Greek: P. Moraux, ed. Aristote: Du ciel. Paris: Les Belles Lettres (Budé), 1965.
Translation: J. L. Stocks (Oxford, 1922).
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In print

Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →

Prefer a paper copy? These in-print editions carry the translation read here (or a revision of it):

• In printJ. L. Stocks’s translation, revised, found in Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, 2 vols. (Princeton University Press, 1984) Find in print →

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