
HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Principles of Physics
Telezio argued that if Aristotle had been more consistent in following his own principles, he would have reached very different conclusions. For him, there were only three principles, matter, heat, which plays the role of form, and the absence of heat - also known as cold. Neither Telezio nor Campanella after him adopted the new Copernican astronomy so they still had the earth unmoving at the center of the universe.
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