And B. Tait replied:
> For the beginnings, certainly Aristotle's *Physics* (Book V) is the
> earliest text with any substance ...
The Arabic tradition of commentaries and additions to Aristotle's
Physics-Book V was surveyed in a recent important publication:
LETTINCK, Paul (1994), Aristotle's Physics and its Reception in the Arabic
World. With an Edition of the Unpublished Parts of ibn Bajja's "Commentary
on the Physics". Leiden: E. J. Brill, xi + 793 pp.
An extraordinary rich and extensive work on the Arabic tradition of
translation and commentaries on Aristotle's Physics. Detailed examination
of the commentaries on the successive eight books of the Physics, with
special emphasis on those performed by the two Andalusian philosophers ibn
Bajja and ibn Rushd. Finally, after an epilogue on "The influence of Arabic
philosophers on the development of dynamics in the Middle Ages" (pp.
665-673), the author reproduces the Arabic text, in critical edition, of
ibn Bajja's Commentary on the Physics, as it is extant in the Berlin Mss,
discovered by G. Endress in 1988.
See the review of the book by A. Sabra in "Isis", vol. 87 (1996): pp.
153-154.
Best wishes
Mohammed
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Fez University Dhar el-Mehraz, Department of Philosophy :
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Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin :
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