Note 600 — Chapter VI · COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY, AND COSMOGRAPHY

Theodoric adduced various reasons for the rotary motion of the heavens and gave explanations of this phenomenon which so closely resembled the arguments given by Aristotle in his De caelo (I, 8; II, 3), Physics (IV, 4), and De motu animalium (II, 698b) (see above, p. 370, note 42) that Duhem was led by them to the opinion that the Chartres scholar must have had direct access to Arabic translations of versions of Aristotle. See above, p. 154, and p. 401, notes 57, 58.