Physics (Aristotle) - English Translations of The Physics

English Translations of The Physics

(In reverse chronological order.)

• Glen Coughlin, Physics, or, Natural Hearing (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2005).
• Robin Waterfield, Physics, ed. David Bostock (Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Joe Sachs, Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995).
• Daniel W. Graham, Physics: Book VIII (Oxford University Press, 1999).
• William Charlton, Physics: Books I and II (Oxford University Press, 1984).
• Edward Hussey, Physics: Books III and IV (Oxford University Press, 1983).
• Richard Hope, Aristotle's Physics : with an Analytical Index of Technical Terms (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961).
• Charles Glenn Wallis, Lectures on the Science of Natures, Books I-IV (Annapolis: The St. John's Bookstore, 1940). OCLC 37790727 (Also includes On Coming-To-Be and Ceasing-To-Be I.4-5; On The Generation Of Animals I.22)
• Hippocrates G. Apostle, Physics (Oxford, 1936) (Grinnell, Iowa: The Peripatetic Press, 1980).
• W.D. Ross, Aristotle's Physics. A Revised Text with Introd. and Commentary by W.D. Ross (New York: Clarendon Press, 1936).
• Philip Wheelwright, "Natural Science " in Aristotle: Containing Selections from Seven of the Most Important Books of Aristotle ... Natural science, the Metaphysics, Zoology, Psychology, The Nicomachean Ethics, On Statecraft, and The Art of Poetry. (New York: Odyssey Press, 1935). OCLC 3363066
• R.P. Hardie and R.K. Gaye, Physica in The Works of Aristotle v. 2, W.D. Ross, ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930).
  • Archive.org, scanned, so it includes the translators' emphases and divisions within chapters (missing in the editions below)
  • Wikisource, formatted into books and "parts"
  • online at Adelaide (divided into books)
  • MIT Classics Archive (divided into books; book IV is incomplete)
  • online at BU (one file)
  • at Ancient Greek Online Library (divided into pages)
  • in PDF
• P.H. Wicksteed and F.M. Cornford, The Physics (2 vols., 1929) (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press "Loeb Classical Library," 1980).
• Thomas Taylor, The Physics or Physical Auscultation of Aristotle: with Copious Notes in Which Is Given the Substance of the Invaluable Commentaries of Simplicius (1806) (republished by Prometheus Trust, 2000) ISBN 1-898910-18-9
  • Hathi Trust Digital Library, scanned