Mechanics (Aristotle)

Mechanics (or Mechanica or Mechanical Problems; Greek: Μηχανικά) is a text traditionally attributed to Aristotle, though his authorship of it is disputed. Thomas Winter has suggested that the author was Archytas.^[1] However, Coxhead says that it is only possible to conclude that the author was one of the Peripatetics.^[2]

During the Renaissance, an edition of this work was published by Francesco Maurolico.

See also

• Aristotle's wheel paradox

Notes

1. ↑ Thomas Nelson Winter, "The Mechanical Problems in the Corpus of Aristotle," DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2007.
2. ↑ Coxhead, Michael A. (2012). "A close examination of the pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanical Problems: The homology between mechanics and poetry as techne". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 43: 300–306. 

External links

•  Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Μηχανικά
• Pseudo-Aristotle, Mechanica - Greek text and English translation