Aristotle · Phys.

Physics

Aristotle on nature, change, place, time, and the prime mover, in eight books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1950)) side by side with an English translation (R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 8 books, 71 chapters.

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• Hardie & Gaye Greek & English · R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (Oxford, 1930)

Books

• Book I 9 chapters · 184a10–192b4
• Book II 9 chapters · 192b8–200b8
• Book III 8 chapters · 200b12–23
• Book IV 14 chapters · 208a27–224a17
• Book V 6 chapters · 224a21–231a17
• Book VI 10 chapters · 231a21–241b20
• Book VII 5 chapters · 241b34–250b7
• Book VIII 10 chapters · 250b11–267b26

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotelis Physica. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1950.
Translation: R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (Oxford, 1930).
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In print

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

• TranslationRobin Waterfield, Physics (Oxford World’s Classics, 1996) Find in print →
• TranslationHippocrates G. Apostle, Aristotle’s Physics (Indiana University Press, 1969) Find in print →
• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →
• CommentaryW. D. Ross, Aristotle’s Physics: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary (Oxford University Press, 1936) Find in print →

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

• In printR. P. Hardie & R. K. Gaye’s translation, found in Richard McKeon, ed., The Basic Works of Aristotle (Random House, 1941; repr. Modern Library, 2001) Find in print →
• In printR. P. Hardie & R. K. Gaye’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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