Abstract
The first words of Aristotle’s De Caelo include his cosmology within natural science (ἡ περὶ φύσεως ἐπιστήμη, 268a10). To what extent is the De Caelo a scientific treatise, and, more precisely, a treatise of natural science (physics)? This is the question considered in this paper. Roughly speaking, there are two valid ways of doing physics according to Aristotle, one is formal and final, the other one material and mechanistic, the combination of the two being necessary for a “complete” physics. What could we do with this as far as the De Caelo is concerned?
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