Summary Physics opens with an investigation into the principles of nature. The remaining six books treat physics itself at a very theoretical, generalized level, culminating in a discussion of God, the First Cause. to phlegmatic or bilious people when burning with fevers-this is a matter of art. The first two books of the Physics are Aristotle’s general introduction to the study of nature. For to have a judgement that when Callias was ill of this disease this did him good, and similarly in the case of Socrates and in many individual cases, is a matter of experience but to judge that it has done good to all persons of a certain constitution, marked off in one class, when they were ill of this disease, e.g. And experience seems pretty much like science and art, but really science and art come to men through experience for ‘experience made art’, as Polus says, ‘but inexperience luck.’ Now art arises when from many notions gained by experience one universal judgement about a class of objects is produced.
Now from memory experience is produced in men for the several memories of the same thing produce finally the capacity for a single experience. Volume 1: Aristotles Ontology in the Middle Ages: The Tradition of Metaphysics, Book Zeta Volume 2: Pauli Veneti, Expositio in duodecim libros Metaphysice. “The animals other than man live by appearances and memories, and have but little of connected experience but the human race lives also by art and reasonings.
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