Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>38

Thesis 2>38

Latin

Ordo librorum naturalis philosophiae ab Aristotele tradite est iste: Liber Physicorum, coeli et mundi, de generatione, metheororum, mineralium, de plantis, de generatione animalium, de partibus animalium, de progressu animalium, de anima, tum libri qui dicuntur parui naturales.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19442; 1486 print folio <16v/17r>

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 ab Aristotle est iste | Emendationes errorum, interpone: ab Aristotle tradite est

The sheet's line-break slash in 'metheororum,/mineralium' is repaired to a comma-and-space. 1486 reads 'ab Aristotle est iste' (omitting 'tradite'); the Emendationes errorum inserts 'tradite', giving the reading followed here, which (unlike other emendations in this stretch) the 1487 reprint adopted.

English

This is the sequence of the books of natural philosophy that Aristotle handed on: Physics, De caelo et mundo, De generatione, Meteorologica, De mineralibus, De plantis, De generatione animalium, De partibus animalium, De progressu animalium, De anima, and then what are called the Parva naturalia.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19500; awaiting human check; re-rendered 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-FIX (D-13)

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 2>, philosophical conclusions dissenting from the common philosophy) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 2.4 Contingentia ad utrumlibet futurorum cognitorum a deo simul stat cum infallibilitate diuinae scientiae.
• 2>1 Potest a specie in sensu exteriori existente immediate abstrahi species uniuersalis.
• 2>39 Omnis uia saluans dictum Aristotelis quod uenti orientales sint calidiores occidentalibus, praeter uiam animationis coeli, est friuola et nu